According to a recent online article on the New York Amsterdam News website, the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission has officially designated Frederick Douglass Memorial Park on Staten Island as a historic landmark. It is noted for housing one of the city’s only existing
The Friends of Concordia Cemetery, located in Buffalo, is seeking volunteers to help set up for live coverage of its next dig on Tuesday, Oct. 8 on WIVB TV4. The dig will be featured on WAKE UP so people are needed to help setup beginning
Friends of Lakeview Cemeteries, based in Patchogue, will be having its fall clean-up on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. It’s that time of year again! Please stop by to pick up leaves, litter and tree limbs, and remove invasive plants as part
All month *Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Auburn will be offering walking tours of Fort Hill Cemetery every Saturday in October from 3-5 p.m. Some of America’s most influential thinkers and innovators are buried in Fort Hill Cemetery including Harriet Tubman, William Seward,
Several New York cemeteries will be offering guided cemetery tours during the month of September. Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester will be offering “Deciphering the Hidden Messages of Cemetery Symbolism” on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 11 a.m. Explore the meaning of symbols, epitaphs, and funerary
