SPRING 2011 TOURS & EVENTSReserve online at green-wood.com/tours/events

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 – 11:00 AMTU-MULCH-UOUS AND TREE-MENDOUSFREE MULCH! FREE TREE! YOU BRING US A BAG, WE’LL GIVE YOU THE MULCH. (Or come early enough and you’ll get a free Green-Wood tote bag, too!)

Green-Wood salutes—and supports—gardeners from near and far! Come to Green-Wood to pick up free mulch for your garden (and ours is top-grade!), free advice from our horticulture experts, and even bring home a free tree in col-laboration with the New York Restoration Project and MillionTreesNYC. Whether you garden in your backyard, on your rooftop or in a community garden, come to Green-Wood for this great afternoon and help us make New York an even greener city. Please note: if you’re interested in one of the free trees, you’re encouraged to come as early as possible to fill out a reservation form. Trees weigh approximately 30 lbs. Please be sure you’re able to bring it home on your own.

FREE EVENT. Rain or shine. We respectfully request that you register online in advance so we can gauge response at green-wood.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2011 – 8:00 PM GUITAR HERO AND BLUES LEGEND: DANNY KALBHow often do you get the chance to hear one of Bob Dylan’s earliest inspirations? Danny Kalb has been described as “up there with the best of all blues legends” by the owner of Village’s iconic Café Au Go Go. “I’ve worked with the great-est of all time and he is at the top: Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Zappa were all greats, but Danny will emerge in the top five,” he went on to say. Danny Kalb and his Quartet will play in Green-Wood’s beautiful Historic Chapel for one of the most memorable evenings of the year.

“Mr. Kalb continues to make appealing folk and folk blues . . . rich with rollicking folk blues and stinging, plucky electric guitar solos.” —The Wall Street Journal

$15 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $20 for non-members. Reservations strongly recommended. Wine and beer available for purchase.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2011 – 1:00 PM BASEBALL’S EARLY LEGENDS TROLLEY TOUR As the 2011 baseball season begins, join Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman for a tour of the fascinating baseball pioneers interred at Green-Wood. We’ll visit the monuments and gravestones of Henry Chadwick, the Father of Baseball, who invented the game’s scoring system; James Creighton, baseball’s first national star; Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers; the great hitter Charlie Smith; and many others who played a role in making baseball America’s National Pastime.

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $20 for non-members. Reservations strongly recommended.

RECOMMENDED: BASEBALL LEGENDS OF GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY by Peter Nash. Paperback with photos and illustrations, 128 pages. $19.99 $15. Proceeds support The Green-Wood Historic Fund. Available via green-wood.com, phone order, or at Gre en-Wood.

HISTORIC TROLLEY TOURS EVERY WEDNESDAY& THE LAST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH – 1:00 PMExperience the most magnificent and historic 478 acres in New York City. Join our expert tour guide to hear fascinating stories of Green-Wood’s permanent residents, see breathtaking views of Manhattan, tread where George Washington and his troops fought the Battle of Brooklyn and much more. Now, by popular demand, we are offering a rotation of three different tours. Each boasts great views, beautiful monuments throughout, rolling hills, century-old trees and stories of the fascinating persons interred at Green-Wood. Please note: all tours include a visit to the Historic Chapel and to Battle Hill.

April 6, 13, 20, 24 (Sunday) and 27; May 4, 11, 18, 25 and 29 (Sunday); June 1, 8, 15, 22, 26 (Sunday) and 29Tour A: Discover Green-Wood (4/6, 4/27, 5/18, 6/8 and 6/29) and all Sunday tours (4/24, 5/29 and 6/26)Tour B: The Far Side of Green-Wood (4/13, 5/4, 5/25 and 6/15)Tour C: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood (4/20, 5/11, 6/1 and 6/22)

Descriptions of each tour are online at green-wood.com. Trolley is heated/air-conditioned and enclosed. Tour includes several stops where visitors have the option to walk outside.

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $15 for non-members. Reservations recommended.

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SATURDAY, MAY 7 – 1:00 PMGREEN-WOOD’S GREAT WOMEN WALKING TOURJoin us on the day before Mother’s Day to celebrate some of the most colorful and influential women of the 19th and early 20th centuries who are buried here. Matilda Tone, wife of the Irish patriot; pioneering doctors Susan McKinney Steward and Mary Jacobi; abolitionist Abigail Hopper Gibbons; and actresses Laura Keene and Kate Claxton rest here along with the more notorious Lola Montez and Elizabeth Tilton. We’ll also enjoy the visual delights of Green-Wood, its trees and ponds and its sculpture and buildings by the leading artists and architects of their time, all in a setting of remarkable springtime beauty. Tour is led by veteran Green-Wood tour guide Ruth Edebohls. Walk may be hilly and strenuous—wear good walking shoes.

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $15 for non-members. Reservations strongly recommended.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30 – 10:30 AMWALK WITH THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUBIn April, Green-Wood is a walker’s paradise. For the past four years, members of the Appalachian Mountain Club have toured through Green-Wood, marveling at our 150-year old trees, lakes, winding carriage paths and vistas. For the first time, we’re making this tour available to the general public. Led by Steven Estroff, Green-Wood’s Manager of Education & Outreach, you’ll visit Battle Hill, the highest natural point in Brooklyn with views of New York Harbor, and get to see and interpret the sites of such New York favorites as DeWitt Clinton, Leonard Bernstein and Henry Chadwick (“The Father of Baseball”).

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $15 for non-members. Please note: This tour fills up quickly. Only 20 tickets available for non-AMC members and tickets must be purchased in advance.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23 – 1:00 PMSCANDALS IN STONE TROLLEY TOURJoin NYC historian, author and raconteur Benjamin Feldman for a two-hour trolley tour to the gravesites of five long-forgotten permanent residents of Green-Wood Cemetery, notorious in their days. Hear the story of Dr. Harvey Burdell, a misogynist dentist in lower Manhattan whose gruesome murder in 1857 turned the town on end. Hear the unsavory history of Edward West “Daddy” Browning, a wealthy, Roaring Twenties man about town who bedded and wedded wannabe Cinderellas of tender ages. Visit the strangely separated graves of Henry Knight Dyer, president of the Dennison Paper

Products Company in the late 19th century and his (mostly) beloved wife Caroline Lavinia Price Dyer.

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $15 for non-members. Reservations strongly recommended.

RECOMMENDED: CALL ME DADDY: BABES AND BATHOS IN EDWARD WEST BROWNING’S JAZZ-AGE NEW YORK by Benjamin Feldman. Paperback, 101 pages. $24.95 $20. Proceeds support The Green-Wood Historic Fund. Available via green-wood.com, phone order, or at Green-Wood.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011 – 1:00 PM UNDERGROUND MUSES OF GREEN-WOOD WALKING TOURMany famous and fascinating artists, actors and composers have made Green-Wood their place of final repose. Leonard Bernstein, Fred Ebb, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Asher Durand, George Catlin, Currier and Ives, George Bellows and William Merritt Chase are just a few we will visit. We’ll also enjoy the visual delights of Green-Wood, its trees and ponds and its sculpture and buildings by the leading artists and architects of their time, all in a setting of remarkable springtime beauty. Tour is led by veteran Green-Wood tour guide Ruth Edebohls. Walk may be hilly and strenuous—wear good walking shoes.

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $15 for non-members. Reservations strongly recommended.

RECOMMENDED: NOTES OF A PIANIST, LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK edited by Jeanne Behrend. Paperback, 433 pages. $24.95 $20. Proceeds support The Green-Wood Historic Fund. Available via green-wood.com, phone order, or at Green-Wood.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2 – 6:00 PMHONORING THEIR SACRIFICE EXHIBITION CURATOR’S RECEPTION FOR VOLUNTEERS & MEMBERS ONLYGreen-Wood historian Jeff Richman will host a special reception to highlight our unique exhibition of Civil War memo-rabilia and to thank all of Green-Wood’s volunteers and members. Hear the behind-the-scenes stories and discoveries of Green-Wood’s Civil War project, as well as how the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and our ongoing program of tours and events help ensure Green-Wood’s next 100 years. Join us for wine and cheese and light refreshments.

ADMISSION FOR GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS IS FREE; however, we respectfully request that you register online in advance so we can gauge response at green-wood.com

SATURDAY, MAY 14 – 11:00 AMA COMMUNITY OF SOULS WALKING TOURGreen-Wood, a National Historic Landmark and great outdoor museum, is also a community of souls. Visiting Green-Wood’s monuments and memorials is a unique chance to relate our own modern lives to the shared struggles and joys of those who went before us. In this tour, led by Green-Wood’s Manager of Education & Outreach Steven Estroff, we‘ll hear behind-the-scenes stories of lives well-led, good ideas gone wrong and passions run amok. Tour-goers will also be introduced to the vast array of symbolism on 19th- and early 20th-century monuments.

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $15 for non-members. Reservations strongly recommended.

RECOMMENDED: STORIES IN STONE, A FIELD GUIDE TO CEMETERY SYMBOLISM AND ICONOGRAPHY by Douglas Keister. Hardcover, 288 pages. $24.95 $20. Proceeds support The Green-Wood Historic Fund. Available via green-wood.com, phone order, or at Green-Wood.

MONDAY, MAY 9 – 6:30 PM MEMBERS-ONLY SCREENING JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD PLUS WINE, CHEESE AND Q&A WITH THE PRODUCER AND SPECIAL GUEST TBA

Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over 20 years ago, this definitivedocumentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the late 1970s, hecovered the city with the graffiti tag “SAMO.” Twenty-five years old at the height of his career, Basquiat painted canvasesthat sell today for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Davis details the mysteries thatsurround this young artist of enormous talent. Featuring interviews with Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Fab 5 Freddy,Jeffrey Deitch and many more. Jean-Michel Basquiat is interred at Green-Wood and his gravestone is one of the most visited sites at the cemetery.

$25 per person (includes wine and cheese) for Green-Wood Historic Fund members. Seating is limited. Reservations required. Not yet a member? Visit green-wood.com/membership or 718-768-7300.

SUNDAY, MAY 8 – 1:00 PMBIRDS, BLOOMS AND BEAUTY MOTHER’S DAY WALKING TOUR Join Green-Wood tour guide Marge Raymond for a walk through one of New York’s most beautiful landscapes. As an avid birdwatcher for more than 20 years, Raymond will show bird enthusiasts from novice to experienced the stunning array of spring migratory birds on Green-Wood’s 478 acres. You’ll also see the dazzling azaleas, dogwoods and other spring blooms that make Green-Wood a “must-see” for everyone ready to forget the long winter. Plus you’ll hear fascinating tales of our famous and infamous permanent residents. Bring binoculars and wear sturdy walking shoes.

$10 for Green-Wood Historic Fund members / $15 for non-members. Reservations strongly recommended.

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THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL WAR: 1861–2011CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS SATURDAY, MAY 14 – 9:00 AMWe need you! As we prepare for the celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, we need as many hands as we can get. Help us place candles on the graves of our Civil War veterans. Spend a spring day at Green-Wood and know that you’re helping to honor the memories of the men who sacrificed so much for the cause.

SUNDAY, MAY 29 – 9:00 AM On this day, we’ll finish placing candles on each of the Civil War veterans’ graves. Bring your friends! We’ve got 4,500 graves to cover.

FREE EVENT. To volunteer, please contact Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman, jeffrichman@green-wood.com.

LIGHT A LIGHT, HONOR A HERO: Buy a candle in honor of a Green-Wood Civil War veteran. $10 for 1, $25 for 3, $150 for 25. Go to green-wood.com/candle150

SATURDAY, MAY 28–SUNDAY, JUNE 12 CIVIL WAR EXHIBITION: “HONORING THEIR SACRIFICE” Gathered from private collections, as well as from our own Green-Wood Historic Fund collections, this exhibition features fascinating memorabilia from the Civil War, much of it never before displayed in public. See, up close, two authentic Civil War cannons, life-sized zinc sculptures of Union soldiers, and genuine Civil War uniforms; hear the stories and tales of the brave men who fought in the Civil War; experience the extraordinary stories of the patriotism of Green-Wood’s Civil War veterans.

In Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel, just inside the main Arch at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue. Admission is FREE. The exhibition is open from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM weekdays, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM weekends.

SUNDAY, MAY 29 – 7:00 PM THE GRAND PROCESSION 7:00 PM MUSICAL WARM-UP. Join musicians, singers and re-enactors for a chance to hear Civil War melodies and talk with historians well-versed in the stories of the Civil War. We’ll have an 11-piece brass band, fiddlers and singers on hand for this overture to the Grand Procession.

8:15 PM GRAND PROCESSION. Led by cavalry, our procession will wind through our historic grounds and past more than 4,500 candlelit graves of Civil War veterans, guarded by uniformed re-enactors and serenaded by musicians and singers.

AFTER THE PROCESSION: View our Civil War exhibition “Honoring Their Sacrifice” in the Historic Chapel; visit the Union and Confederate encampments where re-enactors will share historical details and stories of the Civil War.

$10 per person or $25 for families. At the door: $15/$30. Get tickets online, by phone, or on-site.

MONDAY, MAY 30 – 11:00 AM THE MARCH OF HONOR Walk through Green-Wood with descendants of Civil War veterans and uniformed re-enactors to the Civil War Soldiers’ Lot, where 127 Union veterans are interred, including men who died at Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the Soldiers’ Lot will include a reading of the names of some of the veterans who are interred at Green-Wood, artillery and rifle salutes, and musical tributes.

FREE EVENT. We respectfully request that you register online at green-wood.com in advance so we can gauge response.

MONDAY, MAY 30 – 3:00 PMGREEN-WOOD’S 13TH ANNUAL FREE MEMORIAL DAY CONCERTFEATURING MUSIC FROM THE CIVIL WAR & FROM GREEN-WOOD’S PERMANENT RESIDENTS

Now in its 13th year, Green-Wood’s annual Memorial Day concert has become a true neighborhood favorite. The concert features the ISO Symphonic Band, which was founded in 1995 to sponsor talented students throughout New York City. They are led by ISO’s inimitable founder and conductor, Brian P. Worsdale. This year, we’re featuring melodies of the Civil War in addition to the works of Green-Wood’s permanent residents Fred Ebb, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Leonard Bernstein and many others. Bring a blanket and enjoy this early summer performance.

FREE EVENT. We respectfully request that you register online at green-wood.com in advance so we can gauge response.