ForgottenTour 29, Green-Wood Cemetery Part 2, Brooklyn
Forgotten New York - Well, your webmaster finally made the team picture after 29 ForgottenTours. Can you spot where I am?* As usual, despite sunny weather predicted all week, ForgottenTour Day turned...
View ArticleFORGOTTENTOUR #100: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
Forgotten New York - Forgotten NY’s 100th tour, October 25, 2012 (the first was June 1, 1999) met at Green-Wood Cemetery, a frequent tour subject. This time we explored the eastern end of the…...
View ArticleCHARLES HIGGINS, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - A number of years ago, I believe it was in 1999, I interviewed for American Ink Maker Magazine. The business, part of the Cygnus magazine organization, was located in a corporate...
View ArticleLOLA MONTEZ, Green-Wood Cemetery
Forgotten New York - Marie Delores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (1824-1861) was born in Limerick, Ireland, but was raised in Scotland, educated in Bath in England and in Paris, and gained fame as “Lola...
View ArticleRECAP: FORGOTTENTOUR #113: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
Forgotten New York - For FNY’s 6th Green-Wood Cemetery tour on October 30, 2016, we stuck to the cemetery’s southwest quadrant and visited some sites I haven’t covered until now, as well as visited…...
View ArticleBILLY WEST, Green-Wood Cemetery
Forgotten New York - How many of our present-day entertainers, or entertainers from the past fifty years or so, will be remembered a century from now? The giants such as The Beatles or Louis… Forgotten...
View ArticleCHARLOTTE CANDA, Green-Wood Cemetery
Forgotten New York - One of Green-Wood’s more elaborate memorials is also one of its oldest, that of Charlotte Canda (1828-1845), at about the Cemetery’s midpoint. Charlotte’s life ended in a carriage...
View ArticleCLARENCE MacKENZIE, Green-Wood Cemetery
Forgotten New York - Deep within Green-Wood Cemetery, along Linden Avenue, is a section created by the Cemetery to inter Civil War veterans, known as Soldiers’ Lot. Several German immigrants who served...
View ArticleJANE GRIFFITH, Green-Wood Cemetery
Forgotten New York - Likely the most poignant monument in Green-Wood is the one erected by Charles Griffith to his beloved wife Jane on Greenbough Avenue in 1858. It depicts a young man going…...
View ArticleWILLIAM HOLBROOK BEARD, Green-Wood Cemetery
Forgotten New York - William Holbrook Beard (1825-1900) was a popular painter of comedic animal scenes; it was he who first popularized the Wall Street “bulls” and “bears” by depicting them wrestling...
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