Robert Campbell hosts “Death Takes A Holiday” Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 6 & 8pm.
Join us for a theatrical presentation by Etc. Senior Theatre featuring some of Bellefontaine Cemetery’s most notable and colorful inhabitants. Spend your Halloween night at Bellefontaine.
Tickets are $8 per person. Please call (314) 495-1713 for reservations.
Carol Ferring Shepley, author of Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery, will be signing copies of her book Thursday, October 29, 2009.
The signing will take place at the Missouri History Museum at 1:30 p.m. in the Lee Auditorium. Admission to the event is free and books will be available for purchase in the museum’s shop: Louisiana Purchase.
To find out more about this IPPY Award winning book and read an excerpt, click here.
Carol Ferring Shepley, author of Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery, will be signing copies of her book May 30.
The signing will take place at St. Louis County Library Headquarters (Lindbergh at Clayton Road) from 1-2 p.m. Admission to the event is free.
Carol Ferring Shepley, author of Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery, will be signing copies of her book February 28th.
The signing will take place at Barnes and Noble in West County Mall at 2 p.m. Admission to the event is free.
Join author Carol Ferring Shepley for the launch of Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery, published by the Missouri History Museum.
A presentation and book signing will take place at the Missouri History Museum on January 25th, 2009 at 2 p.m. in the AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room. Admission to the event is free and books will be available for purchase in the museum’s shop: Louisiana Purchase.
Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery by Carol Ferring Shepley
The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of some of the 87,000 people who are buried there. Shepley’s guidebook to St. Louis’s notable residents is organized into sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals, and features biographies of William Clark, James Buchanan Eads, Susan Blow, and Adolphus Busch, not to mention some more notorious backgrounds. Cemetery records and interviews with such insiders as the cemetery’s superintendent and gatekeeper inform the research. The contributions and controversies that make up St. Louis history are revealed, and the architecture and landscape of the cemetery are celebrated as significant to the region.
Find out more here.
We’re proud to announce the launch of the Bellefontaine Cemetery website. We hope everyone enjoys exploring the Timeline, where you can find out more information on some of the historical and interesting people we have interred at the cemetery.
We will consistently be updating the site with additional people, information, events and more, so come back often. Thanks to our friends at Atomicdust who designed and developed the website!