“Stories in Stone” : Mount Olivet, Frederick’s Garden Cemetery
Chris Haugh

MARCH 24, SUNDAY, 3 pm

General Meeting: In Person
Presentation: In Person

• Please join us in the BCGS library to listen to Chris Haugh share the history of Mount Olivet in Frederick Maryland.
• Originally opened in 1854, the cemetery has wonderful residents who led full and interesting lives.
• Hear about what the ‘Friends Group’ is currently doing to preserve and restore gravestones and monuments, along with decedent’s records and stories.
• Chris will also highlight some interesting folks with connections to Baltimore.

CHRIS HAUGH
Chris Haugh has a resume filled with award-winning local history presentations. Many were performed as an employee with GS Communications and the Tourism Council of Frederick County For the past eight years, Chris has been busy with a mission to promote and preserve the rich legacy of Frederick’s Mount Olivet Cemetery, all the while running his own history research/writing and consulting business entitled History Shark Productions. He writes a weekly internet blog for Mount Olivet entitled “Stories in Stone,” leads informative walking tours, and oversees the Mount Olivet Preservation and Enhancement Fund and the “Friends of Mount Olivet” membership group. Chris is a frequent lecturer throughout the area, and teaches public history courses for Frederick Community College’s Institute for Learning in Retirement program and more recently under his own History Shark Productions moniker.