Actors are being sought to portray characters involved in a murder-suicide that took place along the Lehigh Canal in Freemansburg in 1898. The tragedy is the basis for a ghost walk that is part of "Haunted Hugh Moore Park," a new Halloween event sponsored by the City of Easton and the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor.

The ghost walk focuses on 37-year-old John Repher, a disgruntled canal worker who took the life of canal foreman, Dallas Bloss, on April 18, 1898, and then killed himself in his father's presence. Bloss was a husband and father of 13 children, eight of whom were alive at the time of the killing.

Actors are needed to portray Repher and his father, Bloss's wife and two children, and Henry Hahn, the lock-tender at Lock 44 in Freemansburg who was one of the first to discover Bloss's body on the canal towpath.

The ghost walk will take place twice nightly Oct. 24, 25, 30 and 31, as part of an evening about Halloween's origin and traditions.

Actors interested in the ghost walk should contact Dennis Scholl, D&L Director of Education, 610-923-3548, ext. 225.