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\n\u201cUnsaid\/Unsent\u201d<\/p>\nPeckville artist and funeral director Katherine Williams Mullin will install her artwork, \u201cUnsaid\/Unsent.\u201d It is a mailbox fashioned from cardboard and paper and filled with postcards that can be written to lost loved ones and deposited there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWords that were never said \u2014 whether it\u2019s apologies, or gratitude not expressed, or sometimes it\u2019s just something that we can\u2019t say at the time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The temporary, renewable nature of the materials is deliberate and symbolic, Williams Mullin said. \u201cYou give something, and it might come back to you in a different way, or it might just be something that\u2019s let go.\u201d She likes to use renewable materials in her art.<\/p>\n
She is making a fresh, larger version of the one that was a popular part of the \u201cRepurposed Art\u201d exhibit at the Everhart Museum this past winter. It drew a \u201cconstant stream of people\u201d at the opening reception, said curator James Lansing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever there was an opening, they would go and fill out one of the postcards,\u201d Lansing said.<\/p>\n
Williams Mullin may someday find a way to display the postcards, so messages should be anonymous.<\/p>\n
\u201cWind phone\u201d<\/p>\n
The mailbox joins a similar installation on the grounds that has been part of previous tours. The \u201cwind phone\u201d is an out-of-service landline phone. Mourners are invited to place a symbolic call to a loved one, with the words carried to them on the wind. There is an option to write their messages on notepads that are eventually gathered and respectfully burned.<\/p>\n
Wind phones are found worldwide. They first came to attention in Japan following a pair of natural disasters in 2011.<\/p>\n
A similar project in the Back Mountain<\/p>\n
Another artist, Tara Yamelski, installed a wind phone on the Judith & David Rimple Loop Trail in Dallas last September. Notes left behind suggest that at least 100 people, probably more, have used it, she said.<\/p>\n
Buried in the cemetery<\/p>\n
The Dunmore tour\u2019s cast of characters has changed over the 20-plus years of the tour, with about a dozen costumed volunteer actors giving first-person accounts graveside.<\/p>\n
One stop will be the grave of a magician, portrayed by another magician, who may demonstrate his skills.<\/p>\n
The tour always includes a tribute to veterans.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing against the famous folks,\u201d Esty said, but the tour also stops at humble graves of ordinary people. \u201cA lot of them are people who had very interesting lives that you might have never heard of. Because the reality is all of us are very interesting, and all of us do wonderful things. Just because we\u2019re not famous doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t have a story to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n
Getting there<\/p>\n
The tours are at 2 p.m. The cemetery is located at 400 Church St.<\/p>\n
Comfortable shoes are recommended for the two-hour, rain-or-shine walking tour.<\/p>\n
The group suggests arriving early to find parking and view exhibitors\u2019 displays.<\/p>\n
There are no reservations needed. The tour is free, but donations will be accepted.<\/p>\n
Sign language services will be available Oct. 11.<\/p>\n
If you go<\/p>\n
What: The annual Dunmore Cemetery Tour by the Dearly Departed Players, based on historical research and presented by volunteer actors. It is free, but donations are accepted.<\/p>\n
When: Sundays, Oct. 4 and 11, both at 2 p.m., rain or shine.<\/p>\n
Where: Dunmore Cemetery, 400 Church St., Dunmore.<\/p>\n
Information: Do not call the cemetery office. Information is available on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People can symbolically reach out to lost loved ones via two art installations at Dunmore Cemetery walking tours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4998,2136,201,182,35741,803,28,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":["post-289301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dallas","tag-dunmore","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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