Green-Wood Cemetery (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00IX64ZFO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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The cemetery was and remains one of the city’s largest open green spaces and a century ago was a social venue for picnics, outings, and political events. The monuments read like a who’s who of American greatness and include the names of Leonard Bernstein, F. Schwarz, Charles L. Through vintage photographs, Green-Wood Cemetery chronicles the cemetery’s rich history and documents how its tradition as a park and a popular tourist attraction continues, drawing 300,000 visitors annually.. Situated in the historic borough of Brooklyn, the thousands of graves and mausoleums within the cemetery’s 478 acres are tangible links and reminders to key events and people who made New York City and America what it is today. O. A. Tiff
Michelone said Lives in My Dreams. I lived close to Greenwood Cemetery when I was a youngster. My friends and I ramboled around there noting the great variety of architecture. We searched the ponds for frogs. My sister and I always wanted to locate the Lady in the Bathtub but could never find her. Now I have theI picture and realize why; she is located up high where we'd never expect to find her. In later years I always took friends to share my experiences. My architect friend Bill loved the great variety. I went with Dolores to find Lola Montez. I find in the book that she is there but under a different name. All this is fascinating to me. It's a beautiful place . Frank J. Degennaro said This is a very good book on a great cemetery. This is a very good book on a great cemetery. I visit Green-Wood several times a year and I am constantly taken by its beauty and its history. I have taken tours on their trolley on several occasions and I have found their guides to be informative and interesting. The book is hardly comprehensive, unfortunately, as Green-Wood is gigantic and loaded with incredibly famous Americans who are often lost to history. In order to be comprehensive, this book would have to be This is a very good book on a great cemetery This is a very good book on a great cemetery. I visit Green-Wood several times a year and I am constantly taken by its beauty and its history. I have taken tours on their trolley on several occasions and I have found their guides to be informative and interesting. The book is hardly comprehensive, unfortunately, as Green-Wood is gigantic and loaded with incredibly famous Americans who are often lost to history. In order to be comprehensive, this book would have to be 300 pages long. Still, worth purchasing.. 00 pages long. Still, worth purchasing.. Green-Wood Cemetery Up Close and Personal Melissa J. Williams After having seen Green-Wood in person it is easy to understand the passion for this place. The book could easily have been double in content and still leave room for more. The stories behind the monuments - the history of these individuals and their contributions to in some cases not just New York but to the world is a historian's heaven. The last sentence of the introduction speaks to the heart of this book "Green-Wood may be properly seen as a place of perteptual rest for the dead, but is also a way for the living to connect with the past."I hope there will be future volumes to look forward to.
She is a regular contributor to magazines such as American Cemetery and American Funeral Director. . Alexandra Kathryn Mosca is a writer and funeral director in New York City
It became a question of winnowing down the subjects… I can see a Green-Wood II, III and IV and I’m not sure if that would be enough to encompass all the stories it has to tell. To learn more about Mosca, visit alexandramosca.Title: New book traces Green-Wood's ghostly pastAuthor: Lauren JohnstonPublisher: amNew YorkDate: October 29, 2009When it comes to ghostly haunts, Green-Wood Cemetery has an esteemed list of resident spirits. In college she majored in English and took on a side job at a funeral home in Bayside. I knew