June 2010

For several years we've talked about doing a Birthday Calendar for Green-Wood's permanent residents. Here's our first effort: July. Among Green-Wood Cemetery’s permanent residents whose birthdays occurred in the month of July are:

Last week, I headed out to the Bayard Cutting Arboratum in Great River on Long Island near its south shore, along the west bank of the Connetquot River . This magnificent private estate, home of William Bayard Cutting (1850-1912) and Olivia Murray Cutting (1855-1949), his wife, (pictured here) 

Green-Wood Cemetery has a long and proud relationship with artists. The first history of the cemetery, published in the 1840s, was illustrated with prints by James Smillie, who is interred at Green-Wood. It is the final resting place for many of the painters of the Hudson River School, the first American school of painters, including Asher Brown Durand, who led them.