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NY Times: Honoring a Man Who Helped Open Japan to the West

July 22, 2008 by gwmain

July 22, 2008 NYC Honoring a Man Who Helped Open Japan to the West By CLYDE HABERMAN The observance lasted but a few minutes. For that brief ritual, the visitors had traveled nearly 7,000 miles — from Shimoda, Japan, to Brooklyn, U.S.A. It might seem a long way to go to lay flowers on the … Read more

New York Times: Ground as Hallowed as Cooperstown; Green-Wood Cemetery, Home to 200 Baseball Pioneers

April 1, 2004 by gwmain

April 1, 2004 By GLENN COLLINS Before A-Rod and Jeter, there were J-Creigh and Woodward. That would be James Creighton Jr., the world’s first true baseball star, and John B. Woodward, an outfielder who became a Union general in the Civil War. Both played for the Excelsior Club — sort of the Yankees of the … Read more