Can you spot the lamb? Find the willow tree? Or scope out the grave of a Naval veteran who served on the Ironclad USS Monitor during the Civil War? These are questions you’ll find yourself asking as you make your way through the new self-guided scavenger hunt at Warwick’s Brayton Cemetery.
There are 3,800 people buried on the 6.5 acre property, located on Post Road just south of Apponaug Village, overlooking Arnolds Neck Drive and Apponaug Cove, the cemetery features 2,948 marked stones, and you’ll feel like you know them all very well by the time you complete the new scavenger hunt, created for Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries Awareness & Preservation Weeks.
That mouthful of a title is a bit of a misnomer, since programs began earlier this month and will run through the end of May. Cleanup events and historical talks are planned for many towns in the state, although Warwick is the only one to boast about a scavenger hunt…