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NYC ART Meeting: Green-Wood Cemetery



Please join the Archives Roundtable of Metropolitan New York for an
exciting presentation on Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 23rd at 5:30.  All are welcome

ART FEBRUARY 2000 MEETING NOTICE

Jeff Richman, a practicing attorney, has long been fascinated by New York
history.  He first entered Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the world's great
cemeteries, in 1987, and has been haunting it ever since.  He has led tours
of the cemetery for many years and is the author/photographer of Brooklyn's
Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure (Green-Wood Cemetery, 1998).
He designed the full-color map that supplements the book, and wrote and laid
out the self-guided walking tour, "To Battle Hill and Back."  He has
addressed many groups about historic Green-Wood Cemetery, including the
Horticulture Society of New York, the North Shore Civil War Roundtable, and
the Montauk Club. He will present a fascinating slide show and talk about
the cemetery, its archives, and the archival material he used for this book.


Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a not-for-profit civic endeavor.
By the 1850's it had become America's finest rural cemetery and one of the
country's great tourist attractions.  It was so popular that park advocates
used its success to argue for Central Park.  By 1900, Green-Wood was the
largest developed cemetery in the world.  It is the final resting place for
more than 500,000 people, including Leonard Bernstein, Horace Greeley,
Samuel Morse, Lola Montez, the Tiffanys, Brooks Brothers, Harper Brothers,
and Boss Tweed. 

The book was published in 1998 by Green-Wood Cemetery, and the printer is
the Stinehour Press.

Please join us at NARA. 

        Date:           Wednesday, February 23, 2000

        Time:           Social 5:30-6:15 p.m.  Program 6.15 - 7.30 p.m.

        Directions:     The meeting will be held at the NARA Regional Office
at 201 Varick Street.  The facility is four blocks north of the
Holland Tunnel, on the 12th floor.  Please use the entrance on Houston
Street.  There are two entrances next to
one another.  The first entrance one sees approaching from Varick is the
entrance to the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.      The
entrance to NARA is next door.

        Fee:    ART Members $3.  Non-members $5. 

      RSVP:     By 2/18/2000 to Ira Galtman.  E-mail preferred to:

ira.galtman@aexp.com or telephone at (212) 640-3054.
Please remember hosting a meeting represents a financial and space
commitment on the part of our hosts. 
Please be reasonably sure you can attend before responding.

Thank you.  

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