Norcross Cemetery Tour, Celebration of Lights Planned for Saturday
It'll be a night of remembrance for all those who've passed away in Norcross.
Sparkle! in Norcross continues this weekend with a number of activities, including the free History Tour of the Norcross City Cemetery and the Celebration of Lights. The tour, located on Cemetery Street across from downtown Norcross, will start at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, with tales on some of the notable people among the several hundreds buried in the graveyard. Some of the interesting stories will cover: Historian Gene Ramsay, who's been giving tours of Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery since the 1980s, will be running the Norcross tour Saturday. He explained that, once he started working on the Norcross' first pictorial book, "Images of America: Norcross" with co-authors Cate Kitchen and Edie Riehm, he did research on the cemetery and the …
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