2018-11 GRHS Grand River Times 40-03

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Volume 40, number 3

November 2018

Grand River Times The Newsletter of the Grand Rapids Historical Society Inside this issue: Cover Story: November program Letter from our President page 2 The Woman’s Hour page 3 Day of the Dead Event page 3 Program Schedule 2018/2019 page 5

Paths Less Taken: Grand Rapids Women & the Egyptian Revival in Cemetery Architecture PRESENTED BY: Thomas R. Dilley Co-sponsored by the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council, the Grand Rapids Historical Society, & the Grand Rapids Public Library

Thursday, November 8, 2018 at the Grand Rapids Public Library

Happening in History page 6 Photo Sleuth page 7

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Next program: After the November program, the Grand Rapids Historical Society’s next program will be on January 10, 2019, at the Grand Rapids Public Library. Tom Buettner will be speaking about: Mackinac Island's Historic Cottages of the Rich and Famous. Grand River Times

In recent years Thomas R. Dilley has referenced the lives of remarkable Grand Rapids women whose final resting places fell along the routes of his popular cemetery tours. This year on Thursday, November 8th, in the dry comfort of an inside auditorium--no rain date necessary-Dilley will reflect on three local women who made unusual decisions when they commissioned expensive burial monuments in a style which was, in the eyes of the religious (and nearly all male) establishment, pagan and inappropriate for a Christian burial ground.

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