The Kent Historical Society is mixing together frightening locations with enlightening information in October.
Tickets are going fast for their River Road Ghost Bus Tour, slated for October 28 and 29. The tour will travel along River Road Raleigh to the Prairie Siding Bridge, also passing through Dover.
Along the way, participants will check out haunted houses, cemeteries and hear about ghost stories.
"We want to show history is not something boring, or dead and from a long time ago," says Kent Historical Society President Jim Gilbert. "It's alive and it's very vibrant, even in a cemetery."
This coming weekend, the society is also having its Cemetery Strolls. Gilbert says this one is more educational. Attendees will walk through Maple Leaf Cemetery while actors posing as significant Chatham residents throughout history.
Gilbert adds the night will showcase both the good and the bad of Chatham.
"Edwin Larwill will be [one of the characters]. He was the Donald Trump of the 1860s. He did not want Buxton to be created, and he did not want William King to bring the negroes to Raleigh Township," says Gilbert.
The society is selling tickets for both events at the Downtown Chatham Centre October 21 and 22. Tickets for the bus tour cost $25, while tickets for the cemetery cost $20 or adults and $12 for kids ages 12 and under.
