Using Gravestones & Cemeteries to Research Your Roots

Join us at Libby Library on Friday, September 12 at 5:30 pm for a conversation with Ron Romano, cemetery historian and tour guide, and author of several books about early gravestones, cemetery landscapes, and Maine’s gravestone makers.

Copies of the author’s books will be available for purchase & signing at this event. This program is free, open to the public, and no registration is required.


About the author:

Ron Romano is the author of four cemetery and gravestone themed books. He’s served as an officer on the board for the Association for Gravestone Studies, the leading organization in America for cemetery and gravestone studies. He is a long-standing trustee of the cemetery friends group for the 350-year-old Eastern Cemetery in his hometown of Portland, Maine. Ron has designed cemetery tours for nearly twenty historic cemeteries and is a frequent lecturer on Maine’s early gravestones, cemeteries, and monument makers.

You may also like the following events from Libby Memorial Library:

• This Saturday, 23rd August, 12:30 pm, Minecraft Week Movie Showing in Old Orchard Beach
• Next month, 5th September, 01:00 pm, Not-Back-to-School Homeschool Social in Old Orchard Beach
• Next month, 6th September, 11:00 am, Chair Yoga for Adults in Old Orchard Beach

Also check out other Arts events in Old Orchard Beach, Literary Art events in Old Orchard Beach.