We're starting things out right! Last night, Jonny and I participated in the most amazing thing ever... a zombie flash mob!! This is the third year that Juneau has done this. Basically, if you want to participate, all you have to do is show up at the Evergreen Cemetery at 7:00 PM dressed up like a zombie.
This is what the Evergreen Cemetery looks like during the day.
It was established in 1887 to replace the older cemetery on Chicken Ridge, near Main Street, when that location was staked as a gold mine. If you look around the grounds, you can see some interesting graves. Among them are the resting places of Joe Juneau (died March, 1899, buried August 16, 1903), and Richard Harris (died October 11, 1907, buried December 28, 1907), co-founders of Juneau. You can also see the funeral pyre of Chief Kowee who guided Juneau and Harris through the area. Bernard M. Behrends, and his wife, Virginia Pakle Behrends, pioneer residents of Juneau from December 1887 are also buried here. Behrends Avenue is named in his honor. Some others are Charles W. Carter, mayor of Juneau 1913–1914, Waino Edward Hendrickson, mayor and territorial governor of Juneau 1946–1959, and Daniel Lyon, who died in 1948 saving the mayor from an assassination attempt.
The old graveyard is drenched in eerie green light and filled with fog rolling between the ancient tombstones. You then slowly zombie walk with the horde, moaning and groaning through the downtown streets, past the Governor's Mansion, eating brains and swarming the zombie hunters along the way.
Then all the zombies amass in front of the Capitol Building for a huge group picture.
Continuing through the downtown streets, you can see terrified onlookers peering out through the shop windows.
Eventually most zombies make their way to the Rendezvous Bar. All one has to do for a decent drink is to limp up to the bar and moan "BRRAAIINSS..." to the bartender. If you do, this is what you get!
These creepy BrainShots were eerily sweet.
Here's Zombie-Jonny, having a good time in his "I LOVE BRAINS" t-shirt.
Hanging out with our zombie pals.
The winner of the dance contest was dressed up as a zombie from the computer game "Plants Vs. Zombies." Here we are posing with his sunflower.
If you'd like to see some zombie dancing, just click HERE!!
If you'd like to see the rest of the photos submitted to the newspaper, check out the galleries HERE. And have a spooky October!
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