Sunday in the Graveyard with Eve

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Posted with permission of Her Grace:

For Dopers who plan to be in the NYC area on Sunday, May 31, there will be a walking tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx conducted by our very own…

wait for it…

wait for it…

Actually, the name of the thread should have been a giveaway, but…

Eve.

For information on reservations and details:
http://woodlawnconservancy.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/event/info&Itemid=177&reset=1&id=127

Stars you will meet:

Irving Berlin
Geo. M. Cohan
Diana Barrymore
Nora Bayes
Herbert Brenon
Vernon and Castles
Bobby Clark
Lotta Crabtree
Myrna Darby
Reginald De Koven
Gus Edwards
Duke Ellington
James K. Hackett
Oscar Hammerstein I
WC Handy
Victor Herbert
Harold Lockwood
Martha Mansfield
Pigmeat Markham
Nina Mae McKinney
Marilyn Miller & Frank Carter
Florence Mills
Otto Preminger
Aileen Pringle
Ada “Bricktop” Smith
Smith & Dale
Laurette Taylor
Olive Thomas
Helen Walsh
Bert Williams
Nat Wills
Bert Savoy

Photo ops available but you must bring your own camera and shovel.

I won’t be able to attend personally (though I am planning a NYC trip in the foreseeable future so hopefully she’ll do another), but would LOVE to do this both for the living and the dead it would allow me to interact with.

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To the above, please add and or modify:

-She hopes to include all of the above, time permitting in a two hour tour

  • She plan to have 8 x 10s of each subject, “and may even be able to share YouTube clips of some on my teeny-tiny phone”*

  • If there is anybody whose grave you would like to see and who you would like to hear about on the tour but they’re not buried in Woodlawn, simply secure the family permission and pay the handling of having them reinterred before that date and she will do her best to work them in
    *Trivia: Eve has the only candlestick smartphone in existence.

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If she makes it a three hour tour, she can take years to get back out.

Seriously, I’d love to go, if only Tennessee wasn’t so far away.

StG

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This would be perfect for me. I have a not quite unhealthy interest in visiting famous graves. Unfortunately I will be at a conference that day.

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thank you for posting this. i will try my best to get there.

as it is 100 years for the lusitania, are any who sailed on her buried there?

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/drool. I would adore this, but have other obligations.

And with enough notice, I could have probably arranged for all the clips on a tablet to make them easier to see =(

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Damn, one more reason I wish I still lived in NYC.

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If I can get a friend to drive me, and if Ms Golden will temporarily lift the restraining order, I can go.

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If I can find a ride from New Jersey, I will definitely be there.

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Would have been better at night with Liam Neeson springing out to surprise the tour group, but I guess you can’t have everything.