I've been wandering Green-Wood Cemetery for almost 25 years. Yet, I have never seen this monument before. It really is unusual--I've never seen anything like it in any cemetery. Thanks to Frank Morelli, supervisor of our Restoration and Preservation Program, who found this gravestone depicting a baby carriage. Quite a find!

Well, I guess Nature giveth and Nature taketh away.

We do have a great collection of trees at Green-Wood Cemetery--an expert from the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens recently described our trees as the best collection of mature trees in New York City. We have about 7,000 trees--some just getting started, some more than a century old.

This is another entry in the Green-Wood-connections-are-everywhere file.

I just got back from California. Sue Ramsey, one of our Civil War Project volunteers, lives out in Santa Barbara, and invited me to come out and give presentations to the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society and the local Civil War roundtable. I did a slide show on our Civil War Project, one on Green-Wood, and a talk about our Civil War Project. Great thanks to Sue for setting this up.

My son just e-mailed this link to me.

Well, that was quite a snow storm last week. The snow was deep across the cemetery. And it was spectacular! This was no ordinary storm. It blew snow across, piling up in its wake. Days later, you could tell which way the wind had blown--an icy snow covered one side of many monuments and tombs, creating accents and shadows.

With Lincoln's Birthday rapidly approaching, and with a new purchase I've made, I thought it would be appropriate to return to the story of the funeral procession for the martyred President Abraham Lincoln through New York City.

Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre inWashington D.C. on the evening of Good Friday, April 14, 1865. He died the next morning.

In September, 2002, we launched The Green-Wood Historic Fund’s Civil War Project. Our goal was to identify those who had served, to tell their story, and to honor them.

This angel, in front of a tomb near Fort Hamilton Parkway, recently lost its head. Fortunately, Frank Morelli, our supervisor in charge of the Green-Wood Restoration Program, found it in a nearby urn. And its now back in place. Here it is, clamped, waiting for the adhesive to set.

Since 2002, The Green-Wood Historic Fund's Civil War Project has been identifying Civil War veterans who are buried there, writing biographies for each of them, and making sure that each lies in a marked grave. For those whom we have discovered in unmarked graves, we have requested gravestones from the Department of Veterans Affairs.