2025 Lecture Series - Historic Elmwood Cemetery Lecture and Optional Tour

Peek behind the vault doors of one of the oldest cemeteries in Detroit with Amy Elliott Bragg, a long-time Elmwood tour guide and cemetery lover who will share a personal history of her fascination with cemeteries alongside a general history (and future!) of Elmwood and its place in a broader story about American burial trends and landscape design ideas in the 19th century.Lecture Location: Calvary Baptist Church, 1000 Robert Bradby Dr, Detroit, MI 48207

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Limited availability, 40 tickets:Tour the historic Elmwood Cemetery at dusk with Amy Elliott Bragg after the lecture.

About the speaker:Amy Elliott Bragg is a writer, speaker and public historian who loves to tell lesser-known stories about Detroit's urban life, architecture, infrastructure, and innovation, especially from the era before the automobile. She is the director of the Historic Elmwood Foundation at Elmwood Cemetery, where she leads the community-facing activities of Detroit's oldest rural cemetery, including its energetic tour program. A former journalist, she continues to write about Detroit history in her newsletter, the Little Detroit History Letter (link). She served as board president of Preservation Detroit from 2013 to 2018.