Patricia B. Illingworth's Posts - GNH Community2024-03-28T08:47:27ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworthhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2793400097?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2h0es64q8ggjs&xn_auth=noA Tribute From Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-09-05:3365802:BlogPost:832852016-09-05T14:31:22.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Dear Friends,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">I have been remiss concerning writing about Grove Street but today I feel I need to give Tribute to two special people from the Cemetery - Bill and Joan Cameron. Two people who dedicated themselves to the preservation of the history of New Haven. Both worked unending in the cemetery for over 40 years. In tribute to them both I would like to put their life works into…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Dear Friends,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">I have been remiss concerning writing about Grove Street but today I feel I need to give Tribute to two special people from the Cemetery - Bill and Joan Cameron. Two people who dedicated themselves to the preservation of the history of New Haven. Both worked unending in the cemetery for over 40 years. In tribute to them both I would like to put their life works into a poem:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993366;"><em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" xml:lang="EN">Isn’t it strange that princes and kings</span></em><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" xml:lang="EN"><br/> <em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">And clowns that caper in sawdust rings</span></em><br/> <em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">And common people like you and me</span></em><br/> <em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">Are builders for all eternity?</span></em><br/> <em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">To each is given a bag of tools</span></em><br/> <em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">A piece of clay and a book of rules</span></em><br/> <em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">And each must fashion ere life has flown</span></em><br/> <em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">A stumbling block or a stepping-stone</span></em></span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" xml:lang="EN">.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993366;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" xml:lang="EN">Thank you Bill and Joan</span></span></p>
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<p></p>Happy 4th of July Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-07-04:3365802:BlogPost:825102016-07-04T15:24:24.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">To Each and Every One of You.....</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Happy 4th…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">To Each and Every One of You.....</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Happy 4th of July!!!!!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">The cemetery is a wonder to visit this time of year. Please come one and all.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">All the best,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>Glenn Miller Baseball and Grove St Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-06-05:3365802:BlogPost:817302016-06-05T16:55:37.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991848?profile=original" target="_self">Band%20Practice%20with%20Glenn%20Miller%2006052016%20PBI.docx</a></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Dear Friends,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Well, the baseball season is underway like it has been since C1850's. It was coined as the "national pastime" or the "national game." There were baseball players from all over the States. Since 1895 until approx. 1910 there were…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991848?profile=original" target="_self">Band%20Practice%20with%20Glenn%20Miller%2006052016%20PBI.docx</a></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Dear Friends,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Well, the baseball season is underway like it has been since C1850's. It was coined as the "national pastime" or the "national game." There were baseball players from all over the States. Since 1895 until approx. 1910 there were board games and we find "trading cards" to be found in cigarettes packs. The first fully professional baseball club formed was in 1869 - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>"The Cincinnati Red Stockings:. <span style="color: #000000;">A quick history.....</span></em></span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">In Grove Street, we have a wonderful memorial stone given to the cemetery by the Cofrancesco family to honor Mr. Miller his music and his giving to the US Military Troupes during World War II. However, you ask and what does baseball have to do with that monumental musician from the 20th century. Well - I am attaching a file about a great story about Glenn, baseball and New Haven.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Please enjoy the story and then come for a visit to the cemetery to enjoy our summer garden.</span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Thank you......Happy Summer</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Patricia Illingworth</span></span></p>
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<p></p>New Season of Lectures at Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-05-02:3365802:BlogPost:808472016-05-02T21:34:22.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Hello !!!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">A new season of lectures/tours will begin this coming weekend May 7th and May 8th.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">So each Saturday beginning with May7th the tour begins at 11:00am. Each Sunday beginning May 8th the tour begins at Noon.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">So all are welcome. If you…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Hello !!!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">A new season of lectures/tours will begin this coming weekend May 7th and May 8th.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">So each Saturday beginning with May7th the tour begins at 11:00am. Each Sunday beginning May 8th the tour begins at Noon.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">So all are welcome. If you would prefer a private/group/school tours/lectures, please call Patricia Illingworth at 203.389.5403. Or please send an email for any questions or for arrangements - <a href="mailto:p.b.i.newhaven@att.net.">p.b.i.newhaven@att.net.</a> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;"> ALL ARE WELCOME</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">All the best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Chief Docent</span></p>Spring Into Another Walk Sunday May 1sttag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-04-10:3365802:BlogPost:799552016-04-10T13:10:06.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Greetings!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">2016 Spring is bringing in another Walk For Autism. Come rain or shine it promises to be another great success for this coming year. There will music, food trucks, entertainment, bounce houses and so much more. It will be on Sunday, May 1st beginning at 9:30am at Choate Rosemary Hall Athletic Field Wallingford, CT.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Greetings!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">2016 Spring is bringing in another Walk For Autism. Come rain or shine it promises to be another great success for this coming year. There will music, food trucks, entertainment, bounce houses and so much more. It will be on Sunday, May 1st beginning at 9:30am at Choate Rosemary Hall Athletic Field Wallingford, CT.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">If you need full information then please contact: Grand Apizza, 111 Grand Ave, New Haven @ 203/624.7646 either Lisa or George can give full and detailed information concerning this great event for Autism.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">The website is: <a href="http://www.ctautismwalk.com">www.ctautismwalk.com</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Thank you and hoping you can join!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
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<p></p>Poetry at Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-04-04:3365802:BlogPost:798192016-04-04T15:00:44.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4">A Much Happy Spring To All....</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">April if the month of Poetry. Today, I would to bring forward a writer residing at 22 Cypress Ave John William DeForest.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">DeForest is well known for his writing genre The Great American Novel.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Or the more general movement of literature toward realism, and he also wrote poetry.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">A Much Happy Spring To All....</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">April if the month of Poetry. Today, I would to bring forward a writer residing at 22 Cypress Ave John William DeForest.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">DeForest is well known for his writing genre The Great American Novel.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Or the more general movement of literature toward realism, and he also wrote poetry.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Born in Seymour (known as Humphreysville) he was the son of a very prosperous cotton manufacture. DeForest spent must of his time overseas writing and creating literature and poetry.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">One of his most scholarly works is entitled <em>The History of the Indians of Connecticut, from the Earliest known Period to 1850.</em> He served in the Civil War in the 12th Connecticut Volunteers. He is also praised for his work <em>Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty.</em> He was a contributor to The Altantic Monthly and other magazines.</span></p>
<p>Photo is from Wikipedia: <a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_De_Forest.png"><img width="220" height="291" class="thumbimage" alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/John_William_De_Forest.png/220px-John_William_De_Forest.png"/></a></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">He died in 1906 from heart disease in New Haven.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">All the best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Patricia B. Illingworth </span></p>
<p></p>Long Journeys - Long Storiestag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-03-03:3365802:BlogPost:786412016-03-03T19:36:18.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Greeetings to All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Long journeys - long stories briefly describes the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven. In light of this description, the Society is celebrating its <span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff;">40th</span> <span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff;">Anniversary</span> of its birth in 1976. This Society has accumulated vast amounts of…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Greeetings to All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Long journeys - long stories briefly describes the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven. In light of this description, the Society is celebrating its <span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff;">40th</span> <span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff;">Anniversary</span> of its birth in 1976. This Society has accumulated vast amounts of photos, oral histories, books, films, and other vintage pieces of information relating to the Jewish heritage, culture, education, and Jewish values of in New Haven for the past 40 years.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">There has been many a program relating to their heritage. Come March 27th, Joshua Sandman, PhD will be speaking at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel at 10:00am. He will be speaking on Israel and the Middle East Direction.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Then the Society has been extremely active in the "Ethnic New Haven Historic Neighborhood Tours" Project . Where the first Historic Neighborhood Tour will include Dixwell Ave, Wooster Square Area, and Downtown New Haven. And on March13 the group will kick-off this Neighborhood Tours Project at 2:00pm with the "Ethic History of New Haven: Pre 1630 through 2010 and Beyond" exhibit at the Ethnic Heritage Center at 270 Fitch Street on the SCSU Campus. The exhibit is wonderful!!! - <em>it is a must see.</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">We must bestow many, many kudos to this Society for their untiring work in keeping their heritage alive for many generations to come and in co-joining with other groups as well.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">If you need more information concerning the Society and their work, the telephone is 203.392.6125, website <a href="http://www.jhsgnh.org"><span style="color: #993366;">www.jhsgnh.org</span></a>, or email <a href="mailto:jhsgnh@yahoo.com"><span style="color: #993366;">jhsgnh@yahoo.com</span></a>. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Thank you,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
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<p> </p>Grove St Cemetery Honors Sylvia Ardyn Boonetag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-02-10:3365802:BlogPost:781192016-02-10T13:25:00.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Good Day To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">With regards to February honoring Black History Month, Grove St would like to honor Sylvia Ardyn Boone for her studies with regards to Art History Studies of the Sierra Leone.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">From her brief summary of her life, "In 1970, Boone was already a noted scholar and lecturer. Befriended by…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Good Day To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">With regards to February honoring Black History Month, Grove St would like to honor Sylvia Ardyn Boone for her studies with regards to Art History Studies of the Sierra Leone.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">From her brief summary of her life, "In 1970, Boone was already a noted scholar and lecturer. Befriended by W.E.B.DuBois, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou and Kwarme Nkrumah when she studies in Ghana in the 1960's...At Yale, Boone used those personal relationships to present Shirley Graham DuBois, John Henrik Clarke, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks at 1970's "Chubb Conference on the Black Woman."...Once admitted into the Art History at Yale, she earned her distinction for her dissertation, "Sowo Art in Sierra Leone: The Mind and Power of Woman on the Plane of the Aesthetic Discipline", which won the department's Blanshard Prize at her 1979 graduation."</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Boone became one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. specifically in the History of Art.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Grove Street Cemetery celebrates this so noted African American Scholar - Sylvia Ardyn Boone.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Thank You!!!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p></p>February Greetings From Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2016-02-05:3365802:BlogPost:776662016-02-05T11:15:36.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">A Snowy Good Morning!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">A snowy morning this snowy morning....but just a short February Greeting to all and to wish everyone an early Happy Valentines Day. Spring is just around the corner, as a reminder.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">I hope to see old friends and make new friends in this coming season which I expect to be…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">A Snowy Good Morning!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">A snowy morning this snowy morning....but just a short February Greeting to all and to wish everyone an early Happy Valentines Day. Spring is just around the corner, as a reminder.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">I hope to see old friends and make new friends in this coming season which I expect to be another wonderful year.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">So until we meet again.......Happy Valentines Day!!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">All the best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p></p>Happy New Year From Grove St Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-12-28:3365802:BlogPost:763552015-12-28T11:11:50.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Greetings To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Another New Year is upon us. I had a difficult time as to a great sentiment for this new year. So I settled upon these three which I hope all will enjoy.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to…</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Greetings To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366;">Another New Year is upon us. I had a difficult time as to a great sentiment for this new year. So I settled upon these three which I hope all will enjoy.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><strong> </strong> <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henri_bergson.html"><span style="color: #993366;"><font color="#0000FF">Henri Bergson</font></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">“ ... above all things lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true... ” </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"> </span><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"> THOMAS JEFFERSON</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><b><i>Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come.</i></b></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><b><i> Alfred Lord Tennyson</i></b></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><i>All the very best to everyone in this New Year,</i></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><i>Patricia Illingworth</i></span></p>
<p> </p>Peace on Earth From Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-11-29:3365802:BlogPost:759372015-11-29T16:44:38.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992136?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992136?profile=original" width="600"></img></a> Peace On Earth Toward All Men</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><strong>Patricia Illingworth</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><strong>Grove Street…</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992136?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="600" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992136?profile=original"/></a>Peace On Earth Toward All Men</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><strong>Patricia Illingworth</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><strong>Grove Street Cemetery</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p>Autumnal Greetings and Thankstag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-11-11:3365802:BlogPost:756692015-11-11T13:40:54.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">May I thank everyone who visited and supported Grove Street Cemetery</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">this past season.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #993366;">The visual selected is from Victorian Trading Co highlighting</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #993366;">this enchanting season</span>.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Patricia B. Illingworth </span></p>
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<p></p>Just Another Walktag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-10-29:3365802:BlogPost:753222015-10-29T12:21:56.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">~~Cheers To All~~</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">We are moving into the time of year where we all count our blessings and are very grateful for many, many things. I would to point out another walk -…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">We are moving into the time of year where we all count our blessings and are very grateful for many, many things. I would to point out another walk -</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"> <strong><em>The Walk for PKD</em></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">2016</span></em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">PKD is Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) — one of the most common, life-threatening genetic diseases — strikes both adults and children. It often leads to the need for dialysis and a kidney transplant. It affects thousands in America and millions worldwide, who are in urgent need of treatments and a cure.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">PKD Foundation is striving for make their goal for this year...but there is a walk each year and if so inclined all the information is on their website. It is really a disease which needs all the help it can get to find some kind of a cure. And any type of help would be greatly appreciated!!!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Thank you for your time in this matter and Happy Thanksgiving To All. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">All the best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Grove Street Cemetery</span></p>Ghost Stories From Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-10-13:3365802:BlogPost:749512015-10-13T11:57:41.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992507?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992507?profile=original" width="160"></img></a> Cheers to One and All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Well, this is the "season of the witch" as the song goes.....but I am writing to give a brief notation on Ghost Stories from the Victorian Age.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992507?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="160" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992507?profile=original"/></a>Cheers to One and All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Well, this is the "season of the witch" as the song goes.....but I am writing to give a brief notation on Ghost Stories from the Victorian Age.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Actually, Charles Dickens, (who visited New Haven several times) was the master of the ghost story. From his own periodical paper "Household Words" taken from Shakespeare's Henry V "Familiar in his mouth as household words." he developed the interest in ghost stories. As a matter of interest, ghost stories were told at Christmas time, not at Halloween. And this type of story telling had a huge presence in the English home and a very powerful influence and effect upon reading and the interest for reading in Victorian England.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">What is interesting to note is women loved to read and write about ghost stores. These various tales brought excitement into their dull lives. The stories were full of detail into another woman's home and her influence upon her family through the tragedy of the tale.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Where we see an explosion of this genre in 1860. One so noted female writer was Mary Elizabeth Braddon and her tale entitled "Eveline's Visitant" published in the <em>Belgravia</em> from 1866 to 1867. Other famous women writer from this era are: Amelia Edwards, Mrs. Riddel, Rhoda Broughton dating from 1860 through the 1870's to name a few.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">And ghost stories have vigorously continued on through the 19th century with great zeal and so continues today with as much, or even more zeal for the macabre for some.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Well, Happy Halloween to All!!!!!!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Al the best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Grove Street Cemetery </span></p>
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<p></p>A Season of Gargoylestag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-09-03:3365802:BlogPost:739752015-09-03T20:07:57.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Cheers to All!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">The Fall will soon be upon us. Now what about a great tour to add to the brilliance of the autumnal sparkle of the trees in New Haven.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">My recommendation is Mat Duman and his wonderful tour on the…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Cheers to All!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">The Fall will soon be upon us. Now what about a great tour to add to the brilliance of the autumnal sparkle of the trees in New Haven.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">My recommendation is Mat Duman and his wonderful tour on the Gargoyles of Yale. He is an expert to the meaning and carving of this wonderful creatures adorning the University.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">So, without further ado:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><em>An Education in the Grotesque: The Gargoyles of Yale University<br/></em> by Mathew Duman</span><br/> <span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">info@yalegargoyles.com</span><br/><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://www.yalegargoyles.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#007DD1">www.yalegargoyles.com</font></a> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino; text-decoration: underline;">This tour is really wonderful - not to be missed!</span></span></em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">All the best,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth, Curator</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">203.389.5403</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="mailto:p.b.i.Newhaven@att.net"><span style="color: #993366;">p.b.i.Newhaven@att.net</span></a></span></p>Facebook for Friends of Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-08-07:3365802:BlogPost:737322015-08-07T17:38:47.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">August Greetings!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">There has been some exciting news - Friends of Grove Street Cemetery now has a Facebook page.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">So we invite everyone to take a peek and maybe you would like to follow us on Facebook. It has…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">August Greetings!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">There has been some exciting news - Friends of Grove Street Cemetery now has a Facebook page.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">So we invite everyone to take a peek and maybe you would like to follow us on Facebook. It has just been about 7 weeks since it has been in place for us.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Come one - Come all!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">All the best to everyone,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Chief Docent</span></p>4th July Celebration at Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-06-23:3365802:BlogPost:724982015-06-23T14:38:18.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992072?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992072?profile=original" width="300"></img></a> Greetings To All!!!</span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">\<strong><font color="#9C005C">Grove Street Cemetery will again be celebrating the July 4th holiday with the Governor's Foot Guard and paying honor to David Humphreys as part of…</font></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992072?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804992072?profile=original"/></a> Greetings To All!!!</span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">\<strong><font color="#9C005C">Grove Street Cemetery will again be celebrating the July 4th holiday with the Governor's Foot Guard and paying honor to David Humphreys as part of this American celebration.</font></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><font color="#9C005C">The festivities will begin at 09:00am on July 4th.</font></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><font color="#9C005C"> Please come join us!!</font></strong> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><span style="color: #993366;">All the best,</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Patricia Illingworth</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><span style="color: #993366;">Chief Docent</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong><span style="color: #993366;">203.389.5403</span></strong></span></p>Roger Sherman First Mayor of New Haventag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-06-01:3365802:BlogPost:720682015-06-01T22:00:31.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2805013684?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2805013684?profile=original" width="116"></img></a> Hello To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;">In June, we celebrate Father's Day. It has always been a time honored celebration. Grove Street Cemetery holds our 1st Mayor of New Haven Roger Sherman - a Founding Father, if you…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2805013684?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="116" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2805013684?profile=original"/></a>Hello To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;">In June, we celebrate Father's Day. It has always been a time honored celebration. Grove Street Cemetery holds our 1st Mayor of New Haven Roger Sherman - a Founding Father, if you will.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Maybe this would seem trite but we can honor this special Founding Father. He was the only Founding Father to sign all four documents setting up the United States of America - The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, The Constitution of the United States, and The Articles of Confederation. Sherman was a self-made man who was by trade a cobbler and forged his own way into an honored life. Thomas Jefferson, said of him, "He never said a stupid thing in his life." And his original home is on Chapel Street where the Union League is now in residence.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;">So if you feel like it - come see the wonderful monument of our Founding "Father" - Roger Sherman.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;">All the best and Happy Father's Day To All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Chief Docent</span></p>
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<p> </p>Tours Opening Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-04-29:3365802:BlogPost:714222015-04-29T11:30:00.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" width="392"></img></a> Greetings To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Well, another year of tours is upon us. So to give out the information - Grove Street Cemetery will open this weekend May 2rd and May 3rd until the end of Thanksgiving Weekend.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Well, another year of tours is upon us. So to give out the information - Grove Street Cemetery will open this weekend May 2rd and May 3rd until the end of Thanksgiving Weekend. Times set for the tours are every Saturday the tour will begin at 11:00am and then every Sunday the tour will begin at Noon. All tours are for free. If there is a need for a private, group, or special tours, please feel free to call me at 203.389.5403 or send me am email <a href="mailto:p.b.i.newhaven@att.net">p.b.i.newhaven@att.net</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Hoping to make new friends and reconnect with old friends!!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth, Chief Docent</span></p>Walking Another Walktag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-03-29:3365802:BlogPost:702622015-03-29T22:30:24.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4">Greetings to All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Usually I speak to the fact Grove Street Cemetery is starting to bud with the idea of Spring and come in an just enjoy a "walk-about" whenever.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">But now I would like to endorse another walk - The Connecticut Autism Walk. It is a wonderful walk to assist in the curing of this disease. This year the walk will be on <strong><span style="color: #993366;">May…</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Greetings to All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Usually I speak to the fact Grove Street Cemetery is starting to bud with the idea of Spring and come in an just enjoy a "walk-about" whenever.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">But now I would like to endorse another walk - The Connecticut Autism Walk. It is a wonderful walk to assist in the curing of this disease. This year the walk will be on <strong><span style="color: #993366;">May 3rd</span></strong> (rain or shine) at the Choate Rosemary Hall Athletic Field in Wallingford, CT beginning at 9:30am. This walk is 2.5 miles through the lovely historic area of Wallingford, CT.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">It is a real hoot!!!! There will be raffles, flowers for sale, food trucks, contests, music and just a lot of fun for all.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">If you need more information, then these truly remarkable persons who have been totally involved with this great project are <span style="color: #993366;"><strong>George and Lisa Carranzo, owners of Grand Apizza at 111 Grand Ave, Fair Haven - 203-624-7646.</strong> Or the website is <a href="http://www.ctautismwalk.com">www.ctautismwalk.com</a>.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #000000;">So there are many walks......the best to all.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #000000;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #000000;">Chief Docent</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #000000;">Grove Street Cemetery</span></p>
<p></p>Spring 2015 Coming to Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-03-09:3365802:BlogPost:699122015-03-09T15:04:11.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" width="392"></img></a> Greetings To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Well, Grove Street Cemetery has been truly asleep this past two months. But hopefully we will be seeing a wonderful spring thaw very soon.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="392" class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original"/></a>Greetings To All,</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Well, Grove Street Cemetery has been truly asleep this past two months. But hopefully we will be seeing a wonderful spring thaw very soon.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;">But as a gentle reminder the season will begin formal touring season for everyone <strong><span style="color: #993366;">May 2nd (Saturday) and May 3rd (Sunday)</span></strong> until the end of November. If you require any information for public/private/special tours, please contact Patricia Illingworth, Chief Docent, at 203.389.5403 or email <a href="mailto:p.b.i.newhaven@att.net">p.b.i.newhaven@att.net</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Hoping to see and make new friends in this coming year.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;">All the best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth </span></p>New Tour Season at Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2015-01-05:3365802:BlogPost:676702015-01-05T20:43:59.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" width="392"></img></a> Happy, Happy New Year</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">May This Year be a Great Year for All.…</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="392" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2804991565?profile=original"/></a>Happy, Happy New Year</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">May This Year be a Great Year for All.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #333399; font-family: times new roman,times;">Grove Street Cemetery will again be hosting Historical Walking tours for all public, private, schools, groups, etc.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #333399; font-family: times new roman,times;">So on <span style="text-decoration: underline;">May 2nd </span>(EVERY Saturday) the tours will begin the season at 11:00am and will continue until <span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 21st</span>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #333399; font-family: times new roman,times;">Then <span style="text-decoration: underline;">May 3rd</span> (EVERY Sunday) the tours will begin the season at Noon and will continue until <span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 22nd.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #333399; font-family: times new roman,times;">If you wish to schedule a tour, please call Patricia Illingworth at 203.389.5403 or email <a href="mailto:p.b.i.newhaven@att.net">p.b.i.newhaven@att.net</a>. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones.....</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">Patricia Illingworth</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">Chief Docent </span></strong></p>
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<p></p>Grove Street Cemetery Merriest Holiday Greetingstag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-12-22:3365802:BlogPost:675392014-12-22T12:50:03.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Hello To All!!!!</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">May everyone enjoy the <em>"MERRIEST"</em> of holidays and then to have a wonderful New Year as well.</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">All the <em>VERY…</em></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">May everyone enjoy the <em>"MERRIEST"</em> of holidays and then to have a wonderful New Year as well.</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">All the <em>VERY</em> Best,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Chief Docent</span></strong></p>Holidays at Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-11-26:3365802:BlogPost:669722014-11-26T20:43:46.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To All Readers Far and Wide -</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first snowfall at Grove Street Cemetery</span> <span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">is a one of a mirific vista - to be enjoyed by all. It is a really nice stroll to view the…</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To All Readers Far and Wide -</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first snowfall at Grove Street Cemetery</span> <span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">is a one of a mirific vista - to be enjoyed by all. It is a really nice stroll to view the niveous headstones. It is Arcadian.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, I am sending to all -</span> <span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">have a wonderful holiday with family and friends and enjoy this winter season as well!!!!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">All the happiest and merriest,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Chief Docent</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:p.b.i.newhaven@att.net">p.b.i.newhaven@att.net</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #800000; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">203.389.5403</span></p>
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<p></p>Autumn in Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-10-02:3365802:BlogPost:659192014-10-02T11:25:42.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">Good Day To All!!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">Just a quick reminder - the cemetery in the autumn is just a splendor to view. To take a lovely stroll around and breath in the fresh cool breezes and admiring the array of colors is just wonderful.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">Good Day To All!!!!!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">Just a quick reminder - the cemetery in the autumn is just a splendor to view. To take a lovely stroll around and breath in the fresh cool breezes and admiring the array of colors is just wonderful.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">Public Tours will still be given until the end of November - if you would like a private tour please call me at 203.389.5303 or email at p.b.i.newhaven@att.net.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">All the very best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: times new roman,times;">Chief Docent </span></p>Grove Street Cemetery July 4th Messagetag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-07-04:3365802:BlogPost:645092014-07-04T12:18:32.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Happy July 4th To All,</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">I received a note from a friend of mine and I would like to share the message with all:…</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">I received a note from a friend of mine and I would like to share the message with all:</span></strong></p>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37282" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Something to think about as the 4th of July approaches!</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.<br/> Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.<br/> Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.<br/> What kind of men were they?<br/> Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well-educated,<br/> but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson,Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> Remember: freedom is never free! We thank these early patriots, as well as those patriots now fighting to KEEP our freedom!</span></strong></div>
<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404470721665_37298" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><br/> I hope you will show your support by sending this to as many people as you can, please. It's time we get the word out that patriotism is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more MEANING to it than beer, fireworks, HOT DOGS, and picnics......</span></strong></div>
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<div class="yiv1731816186MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Chief Docent</span></strong></div>
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</div>Autism Walk In Wallingfordtag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-05-04:3365802:BlogPost:630972014-05-04T16:52:39.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-3">Good Day To All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Usually I like to write about the various persons connected within the cemetery and the walk-about with those persons. But for this note today, I would like to discuss the Walk for Autism which took place in Wallingford two weeks ago.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Needless, to say, it was a wonderful time to give to a…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Good Day To All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Usually I like to write about the various persons connected within the cemetery and the walk-about with those persons. But for this note today, I would like to discuss the Walk for Autism which took place in Wallingford two weeks ago.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Needless, to say, it was a wonderful time to give to a great cause. My team was the "Marissa Monsters". Marissa is the daughter of Lisa and George Carranzo, the owners of <span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong>Grand Apizza (New Haven's Best Kept Secret) located at 111 Grand Avenue, New Haven, 203.624.7646.</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">The walk is hosted at Rosemary-Choate School and then from this point of central position we walked through the historic part of the city of Wallingford. There was a Dixie Jazz Band and other amusements - like walking on bubblewrap, etc. The day was awesome with the best weather ever and the people were just as great.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">So I encourage anyone to commit to this occasion once a year - it is for such a great cause. This past year the group raised around $2500.00 to develop a cure.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">If interested call Lisa or George at <span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong>203.624.7646</strong></span> and they will assist in any questions, or concerns you may have with the Walk.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Cheers to All,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
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<p> </p>Spring in the Cemetery - The Burgeoning of Grove Street Cemeterytag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-04-06:3365802:BlogPost:624992014-04-06T00:21:46.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Just a quick note about Grove Street Cemetery in the Spring.....it is beginning to burgeon with fragrant trees and with the planting of flowers in various areas. There is wisteria at certain graves and trees blossoming across the cemetery. It has been a wonder through the efforts…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Just a quick note about Grove Street Cemetery in the Spring.....it is beginning to burgeon with fragrant trees and with the planting of flowers in various areas. There is wisteria at certain graves and trees blossoming across the cemetery. It has been a wonder through the efforts of Bill and Joan Cameron with his family with the hard-working ground-keeping staff.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">It is very has well-kept for over 40 years and it is to the Cameron we owe a big tribute and thank you for them keeping the cemetery lush and beautiful. The first ground-keep was Gerald Snow - I go to visit him on occasion. It was through his efforts the cemetery had a wonderful record-keeping system without use of technology....surprising Mr. Snow was ahead of his time in record keeping.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Please come visit even with April showers....it is beautiful!!!!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">If there are any questions about visits, please call me at 203.389.5403, or email p.b.i.newhaven@att.net.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">All the best to everyone,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #993366; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
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<p> </p>Grove St Cemetery - Mischievous March - Our Celtic Crossestag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-03-02:3365802:BlogPost:615932014-03-02T15:47:41.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The month of March can be a time of mischievous weather. It is a month where we are witnessing the last of the winter season and then the first signs of spring. Where there are great winds at times and then soft spring breezes coming about in this month. But this is the month of the Irish celebration of St. Patrick's Day and…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Cheers To All!!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The month of March can be a time of mischievous weather. It is a month where we are witnessing the last of the winter season and then the first signs of spring. Where there are great winds at times and then soft spring breezes coming about in this month. But this is the month of the Irish celebration of St. Patrick's Day and so within the cemetery there are Celtic Crosses for viewing.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">In Victorian times and carrying-on into the Gilded Age, March offered maple-</span><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">sugaring parties, then St. Patrick's Day Celebrations, with fairy wayside jaunts of finding new flowerings, or children planting their own special gardens, with the making of pussy willow wreaths and finally the making of Easter baskets. There were scents from the kitchens of Irish families of Colcannon and the savoring flavor of Irish Soda bread. Still by the fireside on March evenings, the literature of the Gilded Age was of <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>Peter Pan and Wendy</em></strong></span> by Sir James M Barrie (1911), or we might be reading this book <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>The Secret Garden</em></strong></span> by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911).</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">But getting on with Grove Street Cemetery, not just in March but all year, the cemetery hosts monumental structures of Celtic Crosses. The Celtic Cross is a very distinct piece of funerary art. The Cross is considered a most effervescent of all crosses to be found anywhere. They are embellished with lovely and intricate tracery and froth with ancient symbolism of the Celt people. The basic form of the Celtic cross is a cross form enclosed with a nimbus (circle). The cross has its origins as far back as 10,000 years ago with the Pagan funeral rites. As the cross became Christian, it lost the symbolism of the Goddess rites but was still strongly tied to the Mother Earth and very much part of national pride. Just as a brief description of the cross, the four arms correspond to the four elements of Earth - Wind - Fire - Water. Yet in some areas the Celtic cross takes the four arms representing the fours provinces of Ireland and the nimbus creates a fifth province by incorporating all the other four provinces</span>. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Just as a point of interest - in a churchyard of Coniston, Cumbria, England, there stands the memorial cross of the famous author John Ruskin (1819-1900). What makes this cross unique it there is no nimbus but the cross has the life of Ruskin chiseled into the cross on all four sides using only symbols. It is breath-taking to be assured</span>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">However, please come to walk about to witness our lovely crosses. If there is an interest to have a guided tour as such, please call me at 203.389.5403, or email any time <a href="mailto:p.b.i.newhaven@att.net">p.b.i.newhaven@att.net</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">All the best,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p>Grove Street Cemetery - Dalia Bacon - Her Work and Her Hearttag:gnhcommunity.ning.com,2014-01-31:3365802:BlogPost:609682014-01-31T19:30:46.000ZPatricia B. Illingworthhttps://gnhcommunity.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBIllingworth
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">Greetings To All</span></p>
<p>The month of February is upon us at Grove Street and I thought I would recount a special story about our distinguished resident Dalia Bacon –From Wikipeadia the following is a brief recounting of her life and a small note for her remembrance on this Valentines’ Day - </p>
<p><b>Delia Salter Bacon</b> (February 2, 1811 – September 2, 1859) was an…</p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">Greetings To All</span></p>
<p>The month of February is upon us at Grove Street and I thought I would recount a special story about our distinguished resident Dalia Bacon –From Wikipeadia the following is a brief recounting of her life and a small note for her remembrance on this Valentines’ Day - </p>
<p><b>Delia Salter Bacon</b> (February 2, 1811 – September 2, 1859) was an <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a> writer of plays and short stories and a sister of the <a title="Congregational church" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_church">Congregational</a> <a title="Minister (Christianity)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_(Christianity)">minister</a> <a title="Leonard Bacon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bacon">Leonard Bacon</a>. She is best known today for her work on the <a title="Shakespeare authorship question" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question">Shakespeare authorship question</a>.</p>
<p>She promoted the theory that the plays attributed to <a title="William Shakespeare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> were written by a group of men, including <a title="Francis Bacon (philosopher)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(philosopher)">Francis Bacon</a>, <a title="Walter Raleigh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh">Sir Walter Raleigh</a> and others.</p>
<p>She was befriended by <a title="Nathaniel Hawthorne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a>, and <a title="Ralph Waldo Emerson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, and, after securing sponsorship to travel for research to England, in May 1853, met with <a title="Thomas Carlyle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, who though intrigued, shrieked loudly as he heard her exposition.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Salter_Bacon#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></p>
<p>Puzzled by the gap between the bare facts of <a title="William Shakespeare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s life and his vast literary output, she intended to prove that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by a coterie of men, including <a title="Francis Bacon (philosopher)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(philosopher)">Francis Bacon</a>, Sir <a title="Walter Raleigh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh">Walter Raleigh</a> and <a title="Edmund Spenser" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>, for the purpose of inculcating a philosophic system, for which they felt that they themselves could not afford to assume the responsibility. This system she set out to discover beneath the superficial text of the plays. From her friendship with <a title="Samuel Morse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse">Samuel Morse</a>, an authority on codes, and <a title="Encryption" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption">encryption</a> for the telegraph, she learnt of Bacon's interest in secret <a title="Ciphers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphers">ciphers</a>, and this prompted her own approach to the authorship question.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Salter_Bacon#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup></p>
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<p>By way of this modern era, Dalia is witnessed in the following book published in 2008 by -</p>
<p align="center">Jennifer Lee Carrell, <b><i><u>Interred in their Bones</u></i></b> – has been reviewed on Amazon Books, to wit: </p>
<p align="center"> <b><i>“Jennifer Lee Carrell’s highly acclaimed debut novel is a brilliant, breathlessly paced literary adventure. The action begins on the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet when Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe is burned to the ground and Roz is found dead…murdered precisely in the manner of Hamlet’s father.<br/> <br/> Inside the box Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle, setting her on a deadly, high stakes treasure hunt. From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a killer and solve a tantalizing string of clues hidden in the words of Shakespeare, which may unlock one of history’s greatest secrets.”</i></b></p>
<p>This book by Carrell contains many of the theories and notions annunciated by Bacon and as she was admired by Emerson, Whitman, and Hawthorne. Dalia still lives on with her magnus opus which was approx. 1,000 pages of intense study and development leading into madness by her theories on Shakespeare and one very broken heart.</p>
<p>To make mention – Dalia fell in love while developing her hypotheses but was rebuked by her lover and she fell into a deep remorse and heartache never to recover. What is interesting to note <b><u><span style="color: #993366;">– there is always a rose at her</span> <span style="color: #993366;">grave</span></u></b>…..She is interred in front her brother Leonard Bacon at 52 Cedar Avenue.</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">All The Best</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">Patricia Illingworth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #993366; font-family: times new roman,times;">Chief Docent</span></p>
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