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Membership Application: It's Not Too Late
You
can become a member of the Conservancy by
filling out the following form and mailing it back to us with your
enclosed payment. Join now to secure a spot at this year Members
Appreciation Party!
Name:_________________________________________________________
Address:_______________________________________________________
Phone number:__________________________________________________
Email address:___________________________________________________
Names of family members, if any, who are
buried at Riverside:
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Membership Levels:[ ] $10 Student
Supporter [ ] $25
Individual [
] $40 Dual /Family [ ] $100 Gingko
Gardener [ ] $250
Earthwork Angel[
] $500 Gate House
Guardian [
] $1,000 Ascending Advocate[ ] $5,000
Calvert Vaux SocietyBenefits of membership: Membership
card ▪ Newsletter ▪ Self-guided tour mapAll contributions beyond the
memberships are
tax-deductible as allowable by law. HRCC is a registered 501 (c) (3)
organization.Contact us at
(478) 742-5328 or email us for more information or to rsvp for the party.
478-742-5328
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What Your Membership Supports: Programs, Projects, and Events
Spirits in October -
actors in costume bring history to life
Guided tours feature
actors in costume at graveside who charm visitors with the compelling stories
of persons interred here. Twilight walking tours are followed by a
reception at the mausoleum. Afternoon trolley tours go through the
cemetery and Macon's historic district. Downtown tours conducted by Sidney Lanier himself!
Partners: Cox Capitol Theatre and Historic Macon
Pathways to History
- putting a human face on history
We have developed an
educational curriculum for schoolchildren which utilizes the cemetery as a
living laboratory for learning history, art, and nature studies. This
project was funded in part by a grant from the Historic Preservation Division
of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
Partners: Local schools
Ocmulgee Heritage
Trail
By next fall the
River Walk will come through the cemetery and the Gate House will be
handicapped accessible. The long term plan is for a bridge across the
newly restored Vineville Branch creek connecting us to the trail, an
observation platform over the creek, and a labyrinth in the grove of trees that
overlooks its banks.
Partner: NewTown
Macon and Friends of the Trail
Photography - Full
Moon Euphoria
Photographers
enrolled to take ethereal pictures in the cemetery after dark by the light of
the full moon. Instruction was provided by three professional
photographers. Partner: Middle Georgia Art Association
Pioneer days
revisited - Antebellum April
A celebration of
Middle Georgia's earliest residents which included walking tours with
dramatizations of the stories of antebellum residents of Macon and performances of antebellum music
and dance in the Mausoleum.
Partners: Middle Georgia Art Association, Mulberry Street Methodist Youth
Group, Girl Scouts of Central Georgia
This Place Matters
We won third place
in a national contest sponsored by the National Trust
for Historic Preservation. The winning photograph was
taken by Maryann Bates of actor Anthony Ennis in a U.S. Navy uniform beside the
monument of Hugh
Aldrich Smalling, lost when his ship was sunk by German fire
off the coast of Italy
in 1943.
Heritage Plantings
Master gardeners are
inventorying the existing plants in the cemetery and researching the original
design created by landscape artist Calvert Vaux, who partnered with Frederick
Law Olmsted in the design of Central Park in New York City. We will establish a
memorial garden in which individuals can commemorate their loved ones.
Public Lecture
Series in the Riverside Mausoleum
Featuring authors
and topics of local interest, our series will be inaugurated by historian Nancy Anderson, who spoke about the life of Dorothy
Vits Lewis.
Picnic and Jazz
Concert
Local residents and
Mercer students picnicked in a natural amphitheatre near the Macon Public
Mausoleum while enjoying the gentle strains of the Freedom Jazz Trio.
Partner: College Hill Corridor Commission
Praising our Heroes
- Veterans Day Ceremony
Special recognition to
veterans interred in Riverside
Cemetery during the past
year.
Partner: 352nd Combat Sustainment Battalion (They provided a guest
speaker, invocation, wreath laying, color guard, and 21 gun salute).
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Historic Riverside Cemetery Conservancy Board of Directors,
2010
Mr. Tom
Moody, Chairman of the Board
Mr. William Slocumb,
Secretary
Mr. Rob McCord, Treasurer
Ms. Maryann Bates
Mr. and
Mrs. James A. Berg,
Jr. (Martha and Jimbo)
Ms. Frances Clay
Mr. Peter Dennis
Mr.
Larry Finney
Dr. Linda Nichols Harris
Mr. Robert Hatcher, Jr.
Ms.
Jeannie Hodges
Ms. Denny O'Callaghan Jones
Mr. Braxton Markert
Ms.
Mary Moody
Mr. and Mrs. Giles O'Neal (Giles and Ann)
Mr. and Mrs.
Brandt Sessions (Trudie and Brandt)
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Sheridan (Lane
and Tim)
Dr. and Mrs. Charlie Snow
(Lori and Charlie)
Dr. Benjamin
Tate
Mrs. Janet Butler
Walker
Mr. and Mrs. John Wood (John and Adriane)
Mr. and Mrs.
George Youmans
(George and Anne)
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