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Subject: [NYSUF] The Evergreens Cemetery
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:28:39 EDT

Interesting article in today's (Sunday, September 7, 2003) NEWSDAY about the
The Evergreens Cemetery:

Here are the final resting grounds of jazz great Bill "Bojangles" Robinson,
Tony Pastor, father of vaudeville, and Joseph DeBragga, the former Republican
Party boss from Queens.

Here, too, amid the 225 pastoral acres of The Evergreens Cemetery on the
Brooklyn-Queens border, lie several lesser-known curiosities. The
groundskeepers-turned-historians love to tell about the burial site of unknown
African-American Civil War soldiers, which they uncovered on the Queens side. Also, there's
the "Grassy Path" cutting through the border, part of a pre-Revolutionary
Indian trail they located.

For the full article, please go to (copy and paste the entire URL, beginning
with 'http' and ending with 'print'):
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-nyceme073444662sep07,0,1199289.sto
ry?coll=ny-news-print


I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.

L'Shannah Tovah & Happy 5764,

Walter Greenspan

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