5 Comments

  1. By SF
    November 8, 2009 at 5:33 pm | permalink

    Could someone please explain this?

  2. By Cosmonican
    November 8, 2009 at 7:16 pm | permalink

    To “SF” — Wystan Stephens is an Ann Arbor historian and curator of the Kempf House on Division. He has long led cemetery tours of the graves of early local notables with studied oration and anecdotes of the city’s history. He is known to be an entertaining fellow, and unless I am wrong, today’s is to be the last tour he will do.

  3. By Phil Dokas
    November 8, 2009 at 8:59 pm | permalink

    Aye, it was scheduled to be the last but the other day some other local news outlet published that he was giving tours on Saturday and Sunday. Some large group came on Saturday even though historically Wystan never gives Saturday tours, so to make up for their mistake Wystan is giving one final tour next Sunday 11/15 to give everyone one true last chance.

    This was my second time this year and definitely the larger of the two. The last time I went, in 2007, there were around 12 people there. It’s $10, starts at 2pm, at the entry gate of Forest Hill on Observatory and it comes highly recommended.

  4. By Devon Persing
    November 8, 2009 at 10:01 pm | permalink

    Thanks for the heads up, Phil. I always wondered how the tour worked, and I’ve always meant to poke around the cemetary. Will definitely try to get there next weekend.

  5. By Sue Perry
    November 9, 2009 at 8:16 am | permalink

    Forest Hill Cemetery is extremely beautiful – - an amazing piece of land to drive or walk through. Many of my ancestors are buried there, including my great-grandfather with this somewhat unusual grave marker. [Photo] I think Forest Hill is the largest cemetery in Ann Arbor, about 65 acres. Excellent website: foresthillcemeteryaa.org. Wystan’s tour is well worth the ten bucks and it’s sad to know he won’t be doing them anymore.”