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    JAMAICA CEMETERY TOUR

    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2018 4 comments

    A week or so ago, FNY posted a survey of a number of Flushing cemeteries that are relatively close together: Mount St. Mary’s, Flushing Cemetery, and what is known as…

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    FLUSHING CEMETERY TOUR

    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2018 1 comment

    Today I’m going to expand on a recent piece I did in SpliceToday, as I am able to get a lot more expansive here with a lot more photos, and…

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    CAPTAIN WILLIAM DERMODY, Mt. St. Mary Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2018 1 comment

    I was rambling around recently in Mount St. Mary Cemetery, the largest Catholic cemetery in Queens other than Holy Calvary in the western end of the borough. I had never…

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    WILLIAM HOLBROOK BEARD, Green-Wood Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2018 0 comment

    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 on the…

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    JANE GRIFFITH, Green-Wood Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 1, 2018 2 comments

    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…

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    CLARENCE MacKENZIE, Green-Wood Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2018 2 comments

    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 their adopted country are…

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    CHARLOTTE CANDA, Green-Wood Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2018 0 comment

    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 accident February…

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    BILLY WEST, Green-Wood Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh October 29, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh October 29, 2018 1 comment

    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…

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    MOST HOLY TRINITY CEMETERY, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh September 3, 2018 23 comments

    By MARIE CARTER The train rumbles through Williamsburg to Bushwick, before exiting into the bright light of day where Most Holy Trinity Cemetery becomes instantly visible. The cemetery is situated…

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    SOUTHSIDE CEMETERY, Ozone Park

    by Kevin Walsh August 14, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh August 14, 2018 0 comment

    In an obscure corner of Ozone Park, at 149th Avenue and Redding Street a block west of the pedal-to-the-metal Cross Bay Boulevard, you can find one of Queens’ many vest…

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    CORNWALL CEMETERY, Port Washington

    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh July 11, 2017 8 comments

    I worked in Port Washington, NY for 12 years at Publishers Clearing House, which this week moved out to Jericho in mid-Island. I still have an optometrist in town and,…

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    LOLA MONTEZ, Green-Wood Cemetery

    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh June 16, 2017 4 comments

    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 Montez, the…

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