Tiffany’s Stained Glass “Autumn”
“God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.” […]
Tag Archives: Gay Graves Tour
Replicating Miss Liberty
“We aren’t here today to bow before the representation of a fierce warlike god, filled with wrath and vengeance, but we joyously contemplate instead our own deity keeping watch and […]
Walk About New York on TV
“Death cannot kill what never dies.” —the poignant epitaph chiseled into the gravestone of the groundbreaking artist Violet Oakley (1874–1961) On Sunday, June 28th—Gay Pride Sunday—Walk About New York led […]
Gay Green-Wood Trolley Tour
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” —Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) For the second year, Green-Wood will celebrate Brooklyn’s Gay Pride […]
A Different Drummer
“Please, dear mother, send me on another cake. The boys took it all from me. Your Clarry.” “Dear mother, do not cry for me, for I am well off, and […]
A Show-Off at Green-Wood
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.” — A. E. Housman (1859-1936, English Scholar and Poet) Primarily found in Japan, the Kwanzan Cherry Tree […]
Magnolia Magnificence
Fragrant o’er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. —Maria Brooks (1795–1845, American poetess) At Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark in Brooklyn, the magnolia trees, with their […]
Walk About New York: the Interview
“I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.” —Roger […]
The Gay Graves Tour: It’s in “Out”
“New Jersey is the poorest place in the world to give concerts, except Central Africa.” —Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869) Just in time for All Hallows Eve, Walk About New York’s […]
Autumn comes to Green-Wood
“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” —Robert Browning (1812–1889) Between the Gay Graves […]
