For Victorians, death was a part of life, giving it essential meaning, and they created elaborate rituals around the passing of a loved one. Between 12n and 3pm on Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20, Historic Jacksonville, Inc. will be offering 1-hour “Victorian Mourning Customs” tours beginning every 20 minutes at Jacksonville's 1870s C.C. Beekman House Museum, located at 470 E. California. The house will be decorated as a Victorian house in mourning— coffin in the parlor, clocks stopped, mirrors draped in black, mourning wreath on the door. Costumed docents will share the fashions, home décor, funeral etiquette, social behavior, and personal mementos that honored the dearly departed in the late 1800s—as well as superstitions, séances, and a few popular practices of the time that we would find bizarre today.