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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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    RECAP: FORGOTTENTOUR #113: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2017 2 comments

    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…

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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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    CHARLES HIGGINS, Park Slope

    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2016 3 comments

    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 park…

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    FORGOTTENTOUR #100: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2015 5 comments

    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…

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    ForgottenTour 29, Green-Wood Cemetery Part 2, Brooklyn

    by maggiemel April 13, 2007
    by maggiemel April 13, 2007 0 comment

    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 out cloudy, chance…

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    GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS, Brooklyn Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006 3 comments

    CONTINUED FROM GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS PART 1 5th Avenue The stretch of Fifth Avenue along Green-Wood cemetery is by far its quietest, sandwiched between its incredibly bustling areas on either end: Park…

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    GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh May 13, 2006 0 comment

    I confess. “Green-Wood Heights” is a name concocted by real-estaters stumped about what to call the area on the NW side of Green-Wood Cemetery between Park Slope and Sunset Park. Some…

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