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Nooks and Crannies tour: Grove Street Cemetery (and reminder of 2nd Babylonian Collection tour)
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- Subject: Nooks and Crannies tour: Grove Street Cemetery (and reminder of 2nd Babylonian Collection tour)
- From: Daniel Lovins <daniel.lovins@YALE.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:59:56 -0400
- Cc: Ellen Ellickson <ellen.ellickson@YALE.EDU>, Daniel Lovins <daniel.lovins@YALE.EDU>, Rebecca Mugridge <rebecca.mugridge@YALE.EDU>, Barbara Rockenbach <barbara.rockenbach@YALE.EDU>, Meng Tang <meng.tang@YALE.EDU>, Kim Tran <kim.tran@YALE.EDU>, David Walls <david.walls@YALE.EDU>, Matt Wilcox <matthew.wilcox@YALE.EDU>, Tim Young <timothy.young@YALE.EDU>, Diane Turner <diane.turner@YALE.EDU>
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Dear friends and colleagues,
Please forgive the unreasonable lateness of this announcement.
M&PSA and Library Administrative Services are pleased to announce the
latest Nooks and Crannies tour. Please join us for a tour of the
Grove Street Cemetery on Tuesday, October 17, 2000, at 12 noon.
Here's a brief description:
"Grove
Street Cemetery opened in October 1797 through the efforts of a group of
New Haven citizens led by U.S. Senator James Hillhouse. Now listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, the cemetery is the final resting
place of such noted Yale alumni as inventor Eli Whitney, lexicographer
Noah Webster, scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs Jr., paleontologist Othniel
C. Marsh and Walter Camp, father of American football.
"Also
buried in the cemetery are such civic leaders as Roger Sherman, the only
person to have signed all four basic documents of American sovereignty,
including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and Roger
Sherman Baldwin, who argued the legal case for the enslaved Africans who
arrived from their homeland aboard the "Amistad" ship. Jedidiah
Morse, father of American geography, and Worthington Hooker, father of
American medical ethics, are also buried there."--Yale Bulletin,
1999.
This Nooks and Crannies Tour is open to all YUL staff.
Send your message of interest with the subject line of “Grove St.
Cemetery” to me at
daniel.lovins@yale.edu.
We will meet inside the Egyptian revival gates at the entrance to the
cemetery on Grove.
--Daniel Lovins
for M&PSA
p.s., a reminder that the second Babylonian Collection tour, for those of
you who have signed up, will take place on Monday, October 16, at 12
noon, outside SML rooms 318-327.
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Daniel Lovins
Hebraica Catalog Librarian
Cataloging Department
Yale University
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
tel: 203/432-1707
fax: 203/432-7231