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Sandwich America 250 Committee to host cemetery walk at Oak Ridge Cemetery · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Sandwich America two hundred and fifty Committee to host cemetery
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  Speaker 1: walk at Oakridge Cemetery. Written by Eric Shelkoff, this article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. As part of America's two hundred and fiftieth
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  Speaker 1: Birthday celebration, the Sandwich America two hundred and fifty Committee
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  Speaker 1: will host a old fashioned cemetery walk starting at four
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  Speaker 1: pm Saturday at Oakridge Cemetery. Oakridge Cemetery is located just
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  Speaker 1: west of the Sandwich Fairgrounds and Edgebrook golf Course on
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  Speaker 1: the south side of Sweden Road. The event is free
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  Speaker 1: Chartered in eighteen seventy under the name Union Cemetery, the
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  Speaker 1: site was renamed Oakridge in eighteen ninety five. During the walk,
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  Speaker 1: members of the Committee, as well as volunteers, will pose
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  Speaker 1: as some of Sandwich's most well known citizens and will
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  Speaker 1: give an oratorical accounting of their life and their work.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the persons to be portrayed during the cemetery
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  Speaker 1: walk include Augustus Adams, founder of the Sandwich Manufacturing Company,
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  Speaker 1: which at one time was well known for its quality
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  Speaker 1: agricultural implements that were sold worldwide. According to a news
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  Speaker 1: release from the Sandwich America two hundred and fifty Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Maps will be available on site showing where the performances
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  Speaker 1: will take place and the locations of the grave sites
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  Speaker 1: will be marked as well.