NFTGA Education Program on Cemeteries & Gravestones

NFTGA Education Program on Cemeteries & Gravestones

Monday, April 21

Starting at 8:30 pm EST / 7:30 pm CST / 6:30 pm MST / 5:30 pm PST

Register to get the Zoom instructions for this virtual event

The NFTGA is hosting two experts discussing cemeteries and gravestones:

• Dr. Joy M. Giguere is an associate professor of history at Penn State York where she teaches courses on American history, medical history, the history of technology, African American history, the Civil War era, and the history of death and mourning. She is the author of Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth Century America (University of Michigan Press, 2024) as well as articles in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. She is currently also the co-chair of the Pennsylvania AGS Chapter and the book review editor for Markers.

• Dr. Perky Beisel is the current National President of the Association of Gravestone Studies and a professor of historic preservation and history at Stephen F. Austin University in Texas.

This virtual meeting is open to all NFTGA member organizations, and if you are an officer for your local tour guide association, please forward the registration email invitation to all of your members. If you get an email about login information for the CTPA website, you can ignore it (unfortunately there is no way to disable these automatically generated messages).

If you are unable to attend the live-stream, the recording will be available to watch for the following 30 days. If you have any feedback, including changing the contact information for future NFTGA Education Programs, please email Mike McMains (mike@tourswithmike.com) from the Chicago Tour Guide Professionals Association.