Oct
30
4:00 PM16:00

Halloween Story time

Come and join us for our 2nd Halloween Story Time at the cemetery. Our special guest story teller from the Swarthmore Library, Mr. Scott Schumacher will read some silly Halloween stories, sing some songs, and after there will be some crafts and snacks for the kids.

We are also very lucky this year to have another special guest, local author of the series of children’s books, The Adventures of Brutus and Baby, Michelle Elizabeth Rogers, and she will be bringing some of her books to read to the kids as well!

Please feel free to wear costumes!

October 30th at 4:00 to 6:00

Kids of all ages welcome!!!

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Springtime Story Time
May
13
10:30 AM10:30

Springtime Story Time

We are very happy to announce that we will be hosting our second story time on our grounds! Mr. Scott of the Swarthmore Library will be reading some spring time stories and there will be a small craft and some snacks after. Kids of all ages are welcome!

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Continuing Spring Time Grounds Clean Up
Apr
17
to May 1

Continuing Spring Time Grounds Clean Up

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  • Google Calendar ICS

Spring Time clean up of the grounds continues! This will include but is not limited to weed maintenance, trees being trimmed in areas where there is low head clearance, installation of a new garden in section A, existing garden prep, filling in of any holes in and around the grounds and reseeding the grass where is has gone patchy. This will be a lengthy cleaning precess that will extend till after Easter, when the generalized warm weather ground maintenance starts up again.

A general reminder to please remove anything that you wish to keep that is holiday related, and if you are bringing a dog on the grounds to please clean up after them or if you see people walking their dogs please remind them to be considerate of others and to please pick up any dog waste.

If you are interested in having a headstone garden installed this year by the cemetery on your behalf please contact us at 610-566-4279 (call or text) or email at manager@eastlawn.org and I will send you a list of deer resistant perennials and self reseeding annuals and price list.

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Plant Sale to help support the cemetery!
Apr
15
to Apr 16

Plant Sale to help support the cemetery!

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  • Google Calendar ICS

There will be an assortment of flowers, herbs, and vegetables being sold to help the cemetery continue to flourish! Come and show your support and purchase a few plants to brighten up your home and garden! Supplies of certain plants are limited!

Saturday April 15th 2023 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Sunday April 16th 2023 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Prices range from $3.00 to $20.00

Plants being sold:

Veg: Pineapple Bi-Color Tomatoes, Sweet 100’s Tomatoes, Pink Beefsteak Tomatoes, Peppers, Wax peppers, Stripy orange peppers, Poblano Peppers, Jalapeño Peppers, Yellow Squash, Summer Squash, burgundy bush Beans, Bush beans, Asparagus beans, Market Cucumbers, Mini Cucumbers (numbers are limited), Black beauty eggplant, Kale & Red Russian Kale, Sun-chokes (delicious and also a lovely tall yellow flower), and Globe Artichokes

Misc.exotics, and decorative: Strawberries, just a couple Pineapple, Cotton, Luffa, Pink Muhly Grass, Purple Love Grass

Herbs: Tower basil, Opal Basil (Purple), Chives, Sun-chokes, Flat leaf Parsley, Cilantro, Sage

Flowers and herbaceous plants: Borage, Red Yarrow, Mixed color Columbine, Pink and yellow Cosmos, Oriental Poppies, Princess Victoria Poppies, Yellow Prim Rose, Evening Prim Rose (pink), Jonny Jump Ups, Purple Come Flower, Ozark Mt. Cone Flower, Alyssum, Procut Strawberry sunrise Sunflowers (not deer resistant), Procut Plum Sunflowers (not deer resistant) , American Giant Sunflowers (not deer resistant), Gian ball Allium, Copperhead Amaranth, Red Drummond Pholx, Creeping Phlox, Bee Balm, Joe Pye, Sea Holly, Liatris, Nasturtium, Butterfly Milkweed, Hollyhocks (Peach Black and Pink), Sweet William (also known as catchfly), Dwarf red cone flower, Marshmallow.

There are additional plants that can be reserved for later pick up in May that are not quite big enough to sell yet and they include:

Serrano Peppers, San Marzano Tomatoes, Roma Tomatoes, Tiny Tim Container Tomatoes, More Milkweed, Heirloom Catnip, White and yellow Yarrow, White Eggplant, Additional varieties of tomatoes (TBD), Hairy Mt. Mint, Tobacco (very limited supply)

If there is a plant that I don’t have currently growing but you would like something special, don’t hesitate to ask! I have a billion different seeds and I can get almost anything started.

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Oct
27
4:00 PM16:00

Kids Halloween Story Time at the Cemetery

The Swarthmore Public Library is partnering with the Cemetery for a Halloween Story Time for all ages. We are happy to announce that will be hosting a reader from the library to read some spooky and silly Halloween tales. We will provide snacks and crafts for the kids. If you can please sign up so we can have enough supplies to go around, but it isn’t mandatory. This is a rain or shine event.

In the event it is raining, story time will be held on the grounds in an event tent.

Sign up HERE:

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Oct
22
10:00 AM10:00

Spirited Yoga at the cemetery





October 22nd 2022 at 10:00 am on the grounds of the cemetery

This one hour yoga class is a seasonal way to enhance your yoga experience in a setting that is befitting of nurturing spirits! This class will be instructed by trained yoga instructor.

Please bring all personal yoga items, such as your mat, blocks, a towel, or any other such item you might need for your personal practice

Price: $20.00 Per person. (Can be paid at the time of service or online) to purchase on line click HERE:

Or call 610-566-4279

Spaces are limited!

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Mar
15
to Apr 13

Start of Garden Installation Section D

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  • Google Calendar ICS

We are installing the first of what we hope to be five gardens this spring starting in section D. We are hoping to encourage more beneficial native fauna to the grounds with native plantings.

We will be planting:

-Chokeberry bush: White flowers that turn to dark purple berries on green foliage that turn orange/red in the fall

-Pink Lemonade Blueberry bushes: Green leaves with Pink berries. Not the classic blueberry bush but eye catching none the less!

-Phlox: We will be planting 2 varieties this spring to attract butterflies and hummingbirds

-Bee Balm: 2 varieties will be planted, a pink variety known as raspberry wine and a classic purple variety known as Judiths fancy, to encourage the bees

-Blue Lobelia: Small blue flowers on vibrant green stems

-Butterfly Bush: Dark green leaves with dark purple flowers that are highly attractive to butterflies, as the name implies

- Pink Muhly Grass: This is a lovely ornamental grass that develops pink fluffy plumes near the end of summer.

As we install these gardens, we will be seeking donations to help with the install, and with the clearing of certain areas so we can continue beautifying the grounds going forward. If you would like to volunteer your time to help or if you would like to make a financial contribution, please either contact the cemetery directly, or go to our Donation page and either click that donation button or fill out the volunteer form.

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Nov
15
to Dec 10

Poinsettia Sale

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  • Google Calendar ICS

It’s the most festive part of the year! The cemetery will be having a poinsettia sale courtesy of our friends at Millers Greenhouse! Like our Mum’s sale, we will be selling assorted colored poinsettias to add some festive cheer to your home, a friend, or the grave of a loved one here at the cemetery.

  • Assorted colors

  • 12.00 per plant

  • Orders need to be in by 12/03/21

  • Pick up is at the cemetery on December 10th between 3 PM and 7 PM.

  • if you cannot make the pick-up time your order will be held on to for an alternate pick-up or dropped off at your home, but deliveries and holds are limited.

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Sep
7
to Sep 22

Fall Mums Sale

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  • Google Calendar ICS

We are having a Mum’s sale for the cemetery! Help support our Cemetery through the purchase of mums for yourself or family and friends, and/or for the graves of loved ones at the cemetery, or donate flowers to be placed on some of our veterans.

Mums will be provided by Millers Greenhouse

  • The Mums come in a variety of seasonal colors

  • $12.00 per plant.

  • All orders must be in by September 23rd by 3:00 pm

  • Pick up is September 30th between 3 PM and 7 PM at the cemetery. 7th & Girard Ave. Milmont Park

  • 5 for 42.00

  • 10 for 80.00

  • Any donated or gifted mums for graves will NOT be placed on graves unless requested to do so

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