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Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery

1998-01-01 History
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Release : 1998-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery by : Jeffrey I. Richman

Download or read book Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery written by Jeffrey I. Richman. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the 160th anniversary of the cemetery, this book includes stories of some of the people buried there, "Civil War generals, murder victims, victims of mass tragedies, inventors, artists, the famous, and the infamous."--Page ix.

Playing First

2015-09-15
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Release : 2015-09-15
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Book Synopsis Playing First by : Thomas W. Gilbert

Download or read book Playing First written by Thomas W. Gilbert. This book was released on 2015-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of baseball's pioneers are interred at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. This books, by a veteran baseball writer and historian, explores the social, business, and fraternal connections that led to their creation of the "National Pastime."

Green-Wood Cemetery

2008 History
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Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 505/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Green-Wood Cemetery by : Alexandra Kathryn Mosca

Download or read book Green-Wood Cemetery written by Alexandra Kathryn Mosca. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, Green-Wood Cemetery has played an integral part in New York City's cultural history, serving as a gathering place and a cultural repository. Situated in the historic borough of Brooklyn, the thousands of graves and mausoleums within the cemetery's 478 acres are tangible links and reminders to key events and people who made New York City and America what it is today. The monuments read like a who's who of American greatness and include the names of Leonard Bernstein, F. A. O. Schwarz, Charles L. Tiffany, Samuel Morse, and DeWitt Clinton, among others. A national historic landmark since 2006, Green-Wood is considered one of the preeminent cemeteries in the country and is a living display of the evolving funeral traditions of the city and America as a whole. The cemetery was and remains one of the city's largest open green spaces and a century ago was a social venue for picnics, outings, and political events. Through vintage photographs, Green-Wood Cemetery chronicles the cemetery's rich history and documents how its tradition as a park and a popular tourist attraction continues, drawing 300,000 visitors annually.

Green-Wood

2018 Poetry
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Release : 2018
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Green-Wood by : Allison Cobb

Download or read book Green-Wood written by Allison Cobb. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural biography of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, and a cry of mourning for a post-9/11 world of perpetual war and environmental violence

Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery

2003 History
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Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery by : Peter J. Nash

Download or read book Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery written by Peter J. Nash. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America's foremost tourist attractions. It is the resting place for many notables, including Tiffany, Steinway, and Currier and Ives, but the cemetery also has a hidden baseball history. Green-Wood is home to almost two hundred baseball pioneers: members of the Knickerbocker, Atlantic, and Excelsior Clubs of the nineteenth century; Brooklyn's beloved Charles Ebbets; stadium owners; ball makers; and "the Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick. The first baseball monument appeared at Green-Wood in 1862 to honor the game's first martyr and star, James Creighton Jr., initiating baseball's tradition of honoring its own with stone or bronze memorials. Green-Wood Cemetery has since served as a model for other tributes, including those found at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Yankee Stadium's Monument Park. Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, through painstaking research, brings these baseball legends back to life with a compelling array of rare images that tell the story of the game's birth in Brooklyn, New York City, and Hoboken.

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