The Dearly Departed Players will be back in the Dunmore Cemetery with an all new tour on Sunday, September 29 and Sunday, October 6,  at 2 p.m.

Tour Director Julie Esty reports that the Players have been rehearsing since mid-July. Tour 2024 will feature 11 all new “stops” on a two-hour journey through the cemetery. Esty notes that one interesting stop will address the first burial in the cemetery and take the Players further back in time than they have gone in their many years in the cemetery.  

Also featured this year will be a Dunmore hotelkeeper, vaudeville performer, and a woman who shares the secret to living to an advanced age of 106.

As in the past, the cemetery will be decorated in a harvest theme with participation by Space Time Mead and Cider, Scranton Films, Lackawanna Historical Society, the Ritz Theater and Carlucci, Golden, DeSantis Funeral Home.

This much anticipated annual event, now taking place over two decades, draws visitors to the cemetery from the tri-state area and celebrates the history and heritage of the Lackawanna Valley.  

The tour was a recipient of a Lackawanna County Arts and Culture grant which helps bring this production to the public at no charge. Tour admission is free. No reservations are necessary. Comfortable walking shoes are suggested.  

For more information contact Julie Esty at 570-344-3819.  Follow the Dunmore Cemetery on Facebook.