CONTACT: Josh Salter/Colleen Roche Linden Alschuler & Kaplan Public Relations 914-629-0444; jsalter@lakpr.com THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY AT THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND ANNUAL CONCERT AND TOUR Concert Features the 50-Piece Brass & Percussion ISO Symphonic Band and the GRAMMY ® Award-Winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus (Brooklyn, NY, May 31, 2010) – The Green-Wood … Read more
History Comes Alive at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery as the Green-Wood Historic Fund Announces Summer 2010 Event Schedule NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire/ — The Green-Wood Historic Fund has unveiled an exciting array of historic walking tours, trolley tours, concerts and events for Summer 2010 at Brooklyn’s Historic Green-Wood Cemetery, founded in 1838. The calendar of … Read more
I just wanted to share this with you. We have many wonderful workers at Green-Wood, and many good people also. Yesterday, one of our employees got this e-mail from an acquaintance: I hope you are doing well! I wanted to send you a message, I know you work at Greenwood Cemetery so I wanted to … Read more
In Saturday’s New York Times, in a front page article about Attorney General Andrew Coumo’s announcement of his candidacy for New York’s governorship, this was found: “Appearing in front of the former Manhattan courthouse named for Boss Tweed, the corrupt political boss of Tammany Hall, Mr. Cuomo told a crowd of supporters: “Unfortunately, Albany’s antics today … Read more
Well, it’s that time of year again. Time to walk Green-Wood Cemetery at night. I’ll be leading Saturday Night by Moonlight, Flashlight, and Footlights on Saturday, May 22, starting at 8:15 p.m. If all goes as planned, we’ll see a great sunset from up on Green-Wood’s hills, and then I’ll lead you through the cemetery. We’ll have … Read more
About ten years ago, I purchased a copy of Nehemiah Cleaveland’s walking tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, written about 1860. Cleaveland was Green-Wood’s first historian; I am its second. Now, I learned a few things from his walking tour about Green-Wood. I also learned some things about writing a walking tour. Never give instructions like this: … Read more