Green-Wood Historic Fund Inc

Programs: Public event and tours: the green-wood historic fund produces over 200public programs throughout the year. These include trolley tours, walking tours, book talks, concerts, art installations, conservation and restoration workshops, arboretum education programs, birdwatching tours, programs on archives and genealogy ("greenealogy") and unique evening programs all designed to build public awareness and appreciation of the cemetery. Green-wood believes that cemeteries are now - as they were designed to be in the 19th century - places for city dwellers and tourists alike to commune with nature, see beautiful works of sculpture and artistry, and reflect on the universal themes of a meaningful life, temporality, and commemoration.

historic collection and archives: green-wood's diverse historic collection is composed of items ranging from cabinet cards to stereoview photographs to oil paintings to 19th-century baseball programs. Every item is historically significant to green-wood, relating either to a green-wood cemetery "permanent resident or to the history of the institution itself. To the best of our knowledge, green-wood is the only cemetery in the nation with a collection of this scope and size. Items from the collection are featured in green-wood's own exhibitions and also loaned to other cultural institutions for display. Further, green-wood's institutional archives comprise an immense collection of meticulously preserved records, all connected to over half a million individuals (570,000 in total) interred at green-wood. These documents represent an important and voluminous contribution to researchers everywhere. The records relate both to famous individuals and also to the uncelebrated persons, the carpenters, the bankers, the grocers, the teachers, the dockworkers, the nurses, etc. Who also played an important role in the city's development.

education programs: for over a decade, green-wood has hosted school groups from brooklyn and beyond. Students and teachers experience the beauty and tranquility of green-wood's 478 acres and learn the personal stories of the people who helped to shape new york city. In 2017, over 3,000 students visited green-wood for school tours of the cemetery, ledby green-wood's manager of school programs.

over 1,000 persons contact green-wood annually to request information on ancestors who are interred here. Our part-time employees receive the requests via our online "greenealogy" program and, using the ny state-approved rates provide the research services to these customers. Results often include a photograph of the grave, digital scans of the archival records, and other information drawn from green-wood's institutional records that date back to 1838.