Saturday, September 19, 2009

15th Annual 2009 Oakwood Cemetery Walk, in Waukegan, Illinois, celebrating 150 years of History.

Every year actors portray different historical figures that are buried in Oakwood Cemetery, giving historic lectures near where they're tomb stone lies.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
Actor Tray Wallace portrays Samuel L. Payne to a crowd, Samuel was born in Alabama in 1869, moved to Zion between 1910 and 1920, died in 1942.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media) 

Actor Dan Drury plays Phillip P. Brand who was born in 1839 and first came to this country from Germany in 1854, opened up the first barber shop on Genesee street in 1859, shaved Abraham Lincoln in 1860, also ran the first public bath house, died in 1914.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
 Actor Dan Drury plays Phillip P. Brand who was born in 1839 and first came to this country from Germany in 1854, opened up the first barber shop on Genesee street in 1859, shaved Abraham Lincoln in 1860, also ran the first public bath house, died in 1914.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Actor and owner of AAA Tent, Alan Nowakowski portrays Arthur "Bickey" Wilkinson, played on several semi-pro baseball teams including one that won the national championship in 1913, having the best record in Illinois:  24-2.  A railroad accident ended his baseball career as a player, he once bowled a 300 and biked over 64,000 miles on his bike in his lifetime:  1883 - 1986.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)


Actor Rich Ribando, impersonates Rollen C. Hill, came to Waukegan at the age of nine, would later become a mail carrier by stagecoach which ended in 1855 when the railroad arrived, lived from 1836 - 1918.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Actor Rich Ribando, impersonates Rollen C. Hill, came to Waukegan at the age of nine, would later become a mail carrier by stagecoach which ended in 1855 when the railroad arrived, lived from 1836 - 1918.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)


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