International Women’s Day 2017
“A woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) In honor of International Women’s Day, March […]
Tag Archives: Green-Wood Cemetery
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 […]
Showing-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 […]
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 […]
Kind Words for the Gay Graves Tour
“So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man’s genius contracts itsel f to a very few hours.” […]
The Gay Graves Tour, Autumn Edition
“Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.” —Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963) There will be nothing boring about the Gay Graves Tour when it returns for its […]
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