1/9/2010 - 9:00am - MGS Library

1/09/2010 - 10:30am - Vitale Room (Holy Family Catholic) - Tom McGehee will speak on "Magnolia Cemetery - Back from the Brink."  Like most city cemeteries, the care of individual lots at Magnolia was left to the owners, not the city.  As families moved or died out, many of these lots became overgrown, and in time the cemetery was in deplorable condition.

McGehee serves as editor for Magnolia Messenger, the newsletter published three times a year by the Friends of Magnolia Cemetery; serves as museum director for Bellingrath Gardens since 1994; presently serves as President of Friends of Magnolia Cemetery; and, is a regular contributor to Mobile Bay Monthly magazine.