Current Program
February 20, 2010 Program
Saturday, 9:30 - Noon
First Presbyterian Church, 21 N. Constance at State
It's another 2-fer:
Speaker: Jeff Richman, Historian for the Green-Wood Cemetery.
9:30-10:15: "No Longer Forgotten: The Search for Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery."
In September, 2002, Jeff Richman, The Green-Wood Cemetery historian, launched its Civil War Project. The goals were to identify those who had served, to tell their story, and to honor them. When this project began, it was naively thought, based on numbers from those who had searched Green-Wood Cemetery over the years, that there were 500 or so Civil War veterans interred there. Was that wrong! In the ensuing years, with the help of hundreds of dedicated volunteers, searches of newspapers, books, muster rolls, as well as many other resources, have identified 4,300. Join Jeff Richman for his account of this research and its most interesting results.
11-12 noon: "Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: Unearthing New York's Buried Treasures"
Join Jeff Richman, Green-Wood Cemetery's historian and the author of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure, for a slide show talk about this fascinating place. Green-Wood, founded in 1838, is one of the world’s most historic and picturesque places, a 478-acre oasis of trees, lawn, gardens, history and sculpture in the midst of urban Brooklyn. It is the final resting place of more than half a million people, including famous permanent residents Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Horace Greeley, and Samuel Morse. In October, 2006, Green-Wood Cemetery was designated as a National Historic Landmark; it is one of only five cemeteries in America that have received this honor. Jeff Richman has been Green-Wood’s historian since 2000. He is also the author of Final Camping Ground: Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, In Their Own Words. http://www.green-wood.com/index.php/gwhf. Read Jeff's Blog at http://greenwooddiscovery.org/.
The meeting begins at 9:30. Come early for coffee and treats.
Contact Marie Sue Parsons at mariesueparsons@cox.net or call 895-4866 if you have any questions about the program or the meeting.
