Annual Cemetery Strolls in Partnership with the  Historic Florida Keys Foundation

Final Historic Key West Cemetery Stroll, March 2023

This season, the final Cemetery Stroll was offered at the Historic Key West Cemetery in March.  During the stroll, visitors in small groups walk with a group leader to the gravesites, where site presenters were stationed to tell a short story about the deceased in brief monologues. 

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Angela BuddePeggy Krysiak

We had a great lineup for the March event:

    The Black Sailors in the Maine Plot presented 

 by Commissioner Clayton Lopez

    Ellen Mallory, presented by Betty Darst

    Wilhelmina Harvey presented by Angela Budde

    Judge Jefferson Browne presented by Peggy Krysiak

    Enrique Aguilar presented by Helen Moll

    Joaquin "Bolo” Godinet presented by Alex Vega


The City of Key West and the Historic Florida Keys Foundation sponsor cemetery strolls. 

Group photo of Volunteers

Photo of the Volunteers and Guardians at the 42nd Annual HFKF Preservation Award Ceremony held on March 4, 2023.

The second Historic Key West Cemetery stroll of the 2023 season.

The Second Cemetery Stroll of 2023 was offered at the Historic Key West Cemetery in February 2023.  During the stroll, visitors in small groups walk with a group leader to the gravesites, where interpreters are stationed to tell a short story about the deceased in brief monologues. 

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Among the gravesites visited were Carrie Pierce, William Kerr, Charles Dupont, John Bartlum, the Dade Lodge Plot, and the Los Martires De Cuba monument. 

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The First Historic Key West Cemetery Stroll of the 2023 Season.

The first Cemetery Stroll of 2023 was offered at the Historic Key West Cemetery on  January 2023.  Among the gravesites visited were The Knight Family plot, Sloppy Joe Russell, B'Nai Zion Jewish Cemetery, Gladys Bates, Captain Outrageous, the Otto Family plot, and Figueredo Plot. 

Closeup of Gladys Bates Angel

 

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The City of Key West and the Historic Florida Keys Foundation sponsors the cemetery strolls.  

Images from the 2022 Cemetery Stroll