DUNMORE — The Dearly Departed Players, a Scranton-based theater group, presented its annual Dunmore Cemetery Tour, themed “Criminal Intent” on Oct. 4 and 11. A large crowd followed a Victorian style horse-drawn hearse throughout the cemetery, stopping at various grave sites to listen to the historic, sad and amusing tales of several costumed “ghosts.”

Horses pull a Victorian style hearse from the Charles M. Noll Funeral Home, South Williamsport, at the Dunmore Cemetery Tour Oct. 11.
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Roger Mattes, of Nicholson, portrays the ghost of a con artist in the Dunmore Cemetery Tour.
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Wendy Belaski, of South Abington Township, acts in the Dunmore Cemetery Tour as an ornery prohibitionist who gives Scranton police a difficult time.
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Julie Esty, of Scranton, writer and director of the Dunmore Cemetery Tour portrays the ghost of a prostitute in the Dearly Departed Players production.
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Jennifer Ochman, of West Pittston, plays the part of a shoplifter in front of the Woolworth mausoleum in the Dunmore Cemetery during the Dearly Departed Players’ tour on Oct. 11. That’s the Woolworths of the famous retail business of the same name.
http://www.psdispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_ABJ-Cemetery-Tour-5.jpg.optimal.jpgJennifer Ochman, of West Pittston, plays the part of a shoplifter in front of the Woolworth mausoleum in the Dunmore Cemetery during the Dearly Departed Players’ tour on Oct. 11. That’s the Woolworths of the famous retail business of the same name. Elizabeth Baumeister photos | Abington Journal

A horse-drawn hearse from the Charles M. Noll Funeral Home in South Williamsport leads a crowd of onlookers to the next stop in the Dearly Departed Players’ 2015 Dunmore Cemetery Tour Oct. 11.
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By Elizabeth Baumeister

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