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Tag: Cemetery
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Pierrepont Family Monument in Green-Wood Cemetery
The Pierrepont Family Memorial designed by Richard Upjohn is one of my favorite hilltop sites to visit in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. It’s surrounding by trees, but you can easily see the undulation of the ground upon which this great city of the dead rests. I took this photo last Saturday when the snow was lightly falling.
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Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery
Y and I have walked pasted the hill where this monument is more times than we can count since moving next door to Green-Wood Cemetery two years ago, but we never looked at Sophie Calle’s 2017 art installation closely until a few days ago. It’s an obelisk inscribed with the words, “Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery.” Beneath the obelisk is a stone box with a slot big enough to slide an envelope through. The idea is for visitors to write secrets on a piece of paper and then slide them into the slot. We could see through the slot that the box was full of papers, full of secrets. Information about the installation is here, and where it is located in the cemetery can be found on Google Maps here.
