{"id":304468,"date":"2026-10-11T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304468\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:20:08","slug":"stories-of-the-past-told-at-cemetery-tour-in-west-pittston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304468\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of the past told at cemetery tour in West Pittston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re-enactors portrayed historical figures who were buried in the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>WEST PITTSTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday. a cemetery tour in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/luzerne-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Luzerne County<\/a>\u00a0gave visitors a glimpse into the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The West Pittston Historical Society hosted &#8220;Garden-Village Stories in Stone&#8221; at the West Pittston Cemetery along Susquehanna Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The night-time lantern tour featured re-enactors portraying historical figures buried in the cemetery, giving visitors a chance to hear their stories and learn more about the people who helped shape the borough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We seem to have a lot of interest not even just from the borough; we have a lot of interest from all around the area, and I think it&#8217;s historical, but yet it has a little bit of a Halloween feel to it as well,&#8221; said Mary Portelli.<\/p>\n<p>Tours began at 5 pm, with the last group leaving the cemetery gates at 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re-enactors portrayed historical figures who were buried in the cemetery. WEST PITTSTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday. a cemetery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-304468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304468","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=304468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}