Green-Wood Cemetery Commemorates 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks “I didn't expect it to be this moving" Annie Jonas • September 11, 2021 News East River Park Action Prepares to Save the Park They Love The group hoped to draw a thousand people to represent the roughly one thousand tree...
Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester is the oldest municipal cemetery in Upstate New York. It conducted its first burials in 1838. Today it holds the remains of more than 350,000 "residents." Among the most famous people buried here are Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Worlds Largest Pan...
Hamilton Fish Jr (1888–1991), a staunch anti-communist perhaps best known for establishing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. I feature this brief excerpt mainly for the great caricature by Abe Birnbaum. MINDING THE HOME FRONT…Hamilton Fish, Jr making a speech in...
For those who prefer horror mixed into their sand, Stephen King returns to a fictional location, Castle Rock, in his new novella, Gwendy’s Button Box, coauthored with Richard Chimer, head of Cemetery Dance Publications, which is also the publisher of the book (S&S Audio). Entertainment Week...
Georgia Lee McElhaney and Ed Zahniser. Contributors include: Tom Donlon, Ethan Fischer, Sonja James, Ilona Popper, Antrim Ross, Hope Maxwell Snyder, John Yost. (anthology, Pernot and Tatlin/Four Seasons Books) Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry, ed. Bryan Borland. Contributors ...
For 85 years, Bennett rested in an unmarked grave at St. John’s Cemetery in Queens, but last November he was remembered with a new marker and a simple ceremony. You can read more about it in thisTimesarticle. * * * Original Verse ...
Susan Brownell Anthony who was an American feminist leader is buried in Rochester at Mount Hope Cemetery 12 More Dumb Laws In And Around New York State You Cannot Shine Shoes After 1PM On Sunday Photo by Emmanuel Acua on Unsplash You Cannot Shine Shoes After 1PM On Sunday ...
Learn about the haunting at the Red Geranium Restaurant and walk through the intriguing Roofless Church at night. We’ll bring you deep into a cemetery that whispers with voices of the past and to a house that has been known to produce a ghostly knock. This Ghost Walk meets on the corner...
Rip Torn is buried at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery. Margaret Hamilton Getty Images Margaret Hamilton Margaret Hamilton who played of the Wicked Witch in "The Wizard of Oz" spent the final years of life in Dutchess County. Her ashes were scattered in Dutchess County. Keeping ...
“Nearby, a fresh grave / is plump with flowers, a mound like a dozen girls / fainted in their ruffled party skirts.” (“Burning Paper in Lazarus Cemetery”) “A bridge across the water like the limb of a prisoner on the stretching rack.” (“Island of Donan Castle”) ...