As part of Harvard’s Civil War weekend, volunteers portrayed eight Harvard residents from the 1800s. The stories of these eight were told in the town center cemetery. Read more.
Judy Warner, the president of the Historical Society, is Julia Willard Haynes Keyes, the widow of a Civil War soldier from Still River.
Paul Correnty, with a basket of hardtack, portrays Forrest Dadmun.
Bromfield eighth-grader Abby Zajac is Fanny Whitney, whose older brother went off to war.
Sarah Sprague is portrayed by Carlene Phillips, who read letters from her brother Charles who survived the war.
Matthew Canning, a Bromfield eighth-graders, is Lyman Blood, who ran away from home at age 15 to enlist.
Civil War nurse Flora Burt is portrayed by Tammy Alfano.
Bob Eiland is William Henry Savage, who was one of the first to enlist from Harvard.
Arathusa Farwell Sawyer, the daughter of an abolitionist, is played by eighth-grade history student Lily Shaw..
