SCHOHARIE COUNTY — Pete Lindemann, local historian and author, will lead a cemetery tour of the Cobleskill Rural Cemetery on Friday, Oct. 29.
The tour will visit 22 graves, including those of:

— Lester Howe, a farmer whose cows, according to legend, discovered Howe Caverns and who, on his deathbed, spoke of a second cavern —  a mysterious Garden of Eden, more beautiful than the first;

— Flem Deans, buried in the potter’s field and according to cemetery records, was a slave from Tennessee who “came North after the close of the war,”  according to his stone, which was erected by a mysterious “friend: who will be revealed on the tour; and

— Harry Page, whose stone proudly proclaims him a journalist; according to his 1908 obituary in The New York Times, he “Swam River a-Horseback to Get a Story and Wrote It on a Tombstone.”

Sponsored by the Cobleskill Historical Society, the tour is free and should last about one hour; meet at the cemetery parking lot at 157 Quarry Street at 10 a.m.