graveyard tales
The peaceful dead of Grace Churchyard stand beside their handsome tombstones and tell their stories on Friday evening,

 Grace Church Cemetery is the setting for Graveyard Tales, a popular presentation. Fifteen former citizens of the parish tell their life stories in this thirty minute tour. Local citizens dressed in the appropriate attire for the depicted departed reenact their biographies.

Tour Information:
  • Guides will lead the pilgrimage, about 20 in a group, through the candlelit cemetery.
  • The tour runs continuously from 6:30 to 9:00 with the last tour beginning at 8:30.
  • Pilgrims are requested to park in the street area and not to drive vehicles into the parking lot itself in order that the lights and noise not disturb the cemetery’s peace and quiet.
In case of rain:
  • Guests will be permitted to park in the parking lot.
  • The re-enactors will present the program inside the church itself at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30.
  • Admittance to the church will be granted fifteen minutes before each performance and
 


Photos by Ann Weller and Patrick Walsh

  • Grace Episcopal

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    Grace Episcopal Church

    Grace Episcopal was established in 1827 when the newly ordained W.R. Bowman came to visit his sister Mary Stirling and found a waiting flock. The present church was completed in time for Easter Day 1860. Severely damaged in the Civil War by gunboats, it was not consecrated until 1891.

     

  • Methodist Church

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    United Methodist Church

    The present United Methodist Church on Royal Street replaced the flood-damaged church built in Bayou Sara in 1844. The original bell was retained and summons the faithful today.

  • Mount Carmel

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    Our Lady of Mount Carmel
    Catholic Church

    The church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was built in 1893 from plans drawn by Confederate General P. T. Beauregard, and for the first time since the days of Spanish rule; Roman Catholic faithful would have a resident priest.