Historian/actor Maureen Patrick dons elaborate mourning attire, takes on the identity of 19th-century Tampa resident Miss Prudence Fipwhistle and leads locals on a Gothic Graveyard Walk. Tampa Historical Society's annual fundraising tradition is a humorously informative living history tour of Tampa's Victorian-era Oaklawn Cemetery, which serves as the final resting place of more than a dozen mayors, veterans from seven wards, and victims of five yellow fever epidemics. 3:30-4:30 p.m., Oaklawn Cemetery, Morgan and Harrison streets, downtown Tampa, $5 donation, tampahistoricalsociety.org.
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2008.