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Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Reviving an American Tradition
Last year, Atlas Obscura published an article about a forgotten national pastime: "Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries." This Sunday, the Friends of the Hudson City Cemetery are reviving that tradition.
On Sunday, May 19, from noon to 4 p.m., the Friends of the Hudson City Cemetery invite you to pack a lunch, bring a blanket or a chair, and join people who share a love and concern for Hudson's historic burying ground for a picnic in the cemetery. The picnic will take place in various sites in the Hudson City Cemetery, the older part of the cemetery west of Ten Broeck Lane. Balloons and signs will mark the spots.
If you don't feel inclined to pack your own picnic lunch, you can pick up a box lunch from House Rules Cafe, which, located at 757 Columbia Street, is right on the way to the cemetery for most of us. The box lunch is $20, and you have your choice of the following menu items: All the Veggies quinoa bowl, the Vegetarian Reuben (a Gossips favorite), Joel's Go-To Tuna (tuna salad served over avocado), and the B(acon) S(prouts) T(omato). All come with Cape Cod potato chips, a Fentiman's craft soda, and "a sweet treat to round it out." Place your box lunch order by email houserulescafe@gmail.com or phone 518 828-5938 by Friday, May 17, and pick up your lunch on your way to the picnic on Sunday, between 11:30 and noon.
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I've been trying to institute a bit of a new national pastime myself: lugging my flabby body topless through the cemetery, following the outer perimeter, around the pond and then down the hill and up the big hill in the old section. I've marginally improved my health, lost a negligible amount of weight but picked up a tan.
ReplyDeleteAs I am passing all these graves, something had occurred to me: There's a fair number of very lavish crypts and with few exceptions, the names do not ring any bell. The only outright recognizable name that has a crypt is "Rossman" - a name that lives on today in Rossman Ave.
Who were these people or families that have these impressive graves? They would have had to be significant local players at some point in the past. The majority of them is in the old section but there's this round-about in the new section that features some pretty stately crypts, too.
Would the history room of the library have anything on them? I am surprised no one has yet taken on this particular topic of local interest.
Kelley Drahushuk does a cemetery tour every year near the end of October, and if you search some of the names on Gossips, you might be surprised what you will find. It is hardly true that "no one has taken on this particular topic of local interest."
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