Explore the Quaker Cemetery June 28th

Here's an email I got today outlining a chance to enter the Quaker cemetery in Prospec Park, if that's something you've been hoping for. I've been wanting to, but will have to miss this because the family is headed up to Maine for a week next Friday. So I'll let this email speak for itself, It's a very bad idea for me to give too much thought to all the fun stuff I'm constantly missing.

The Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park will be open to the public on June 28th for a play about the people buried there. The Quaker Cemetery is a beautiful place in Prospect Park that is generally closed to the public. The event is part of our Brooklyn Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) 150th Anniversary.

Here are the details:

Location: Off Prospect Park Southwest and 16th Street, south of the Long Meadow along Center Drive - look for the signs. Nearest subway is the F train 15th Street station.

Event date and time: June 28th from 2-4 pm (rain date is June 29th, 2-4 pm)

Event price: free, but donations accepted

Telephone numbers: none

More information:
Guides will greet people at the gate to the Cemetery and usher them from
grave site to grave site (1820-2008, over 14 sites of individuals and families) providing historical context to this 200 + year old burial ground. A Friend will represent the interred at each grave site and tell about their life and times.


-Nicole Hamilton