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Participate in the Citywide Nature Challenge at Green-Wood! Join Sigrid Jakob and Potter Palmer of the New York Mycological Society for a guided Mycoblitz (the first official 2021 group survey of Green-Wood fungi for the Fungi Phenology Project). Orientation, training on data collection (with a focus on using the iNaturalist app), and materials to help … Read more
Presented in partnership with Genspace Green-Wood is the perfect place for families to explore nature! In partnership with our friends at Genspace (a community biology lab in Brooklyn), we have planned an adventurous morning of activities and learning for kids of all ages. Expert naturalists will be there to guide and assist you in collecting … Read more
Participate in this year’s City Nature Challenge at Green-Wood! Join Sigrid Jakob and Potter Palmer, the project leads of Green-Wood’s Fungi Phenology Project, and Sara Evans, Green-Wood’s manager of horticulture operations, on a guided bioblitz. This event is part of the City Nature Challenge, an annual four-day global effort (April 29th–May 2nd) to find and … Read more
A great family day of tours and commemoration ceremonies…
Green-Wood will be the place in New York City to honor the sesquicentennial of the beginning of the Civil War.
** REQUEST FOR CALENDAR LISTING ** GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY ANNOUNCES SPRING 2010 EVENT SCHEDULE An exciting array of historic walking tours, trolley tours and events make up Green-Wood Cemetery’s new spring schedule. These activities are part of an ongoing series of cultural and educational events that highlight Green-Wood as an important visitor destination. A portion of … Read more
Just last week, I met Melinda Hunt, the director of the Hart Island Project, which assists families and individuals who have loved ones interred at the Potter’s Field there. She had come to Green-Wood for a meeting. A descendant of Samuel Osgood, the first postmaster general of the United States after the Constitution was ratified, … Read more
Before our gates open to the general public, birding expert Rob Jett leads these peaceful Sunday morning walking tours to discover the many birds that call Green-Wood home.
Author and New York Times contributor, Alix Strauss, makes a return appearance to Green-Wood! This time, Alix will lead our popular book club series, Mortality & Me. She’ll read excerpts from her two her books, The Joy of Funerals: 20th Anniversary Edition, and Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and … Read more
It’s often difficult to engage in conversations about death: Will I say the wrong thing? Am I going to offend someone? Who wants to talk about that morbid stuff anyway? Green-Wood’s book club, Mortality & Me, will help make death an easier subject to talk about through compelling books that tackle this topic head on. … Read more
