Up on the Queen Anne Hilltop, leafy old Mount Pleasant cemetery will host a free narrated walking tour of Civil War veterans’ graves. The tour takes an hour and a half, and you’ll hear about the histories of many of the Civil War veterans, both Union and Confederate, who’re buried in the cemetery. There will also be a portion on the history of Memorial Day itself during the Civil War era here in Seattle. Which is sort of weird to think about, since there were only about 11,600 people in the entire tri-state-encompassing Washington Territory in 1860, the year before the Civil War started, and so it’s easy to assume we Seattle folks had no role in the war whatsoever since we barely even existed back then. Wrong! Registration for the event is required, which you can do online.