Images shot at Green-Wood Cemetery during Saturday's Angels and Accordions performance. The installation in the catacombs was amazing, with a big reaction won by the tales of how long ago some were so terrified of being buried alive that they were interred with a bell tied to a finger to ring just in case. Aspects of the installation in the catacombs are represented in the third and fifth images. Check here for more Green-Wood events.
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Did you see the dance in the circular section? Where the stones are all in a circle? That's actually our Old First graveyard, all moved from Fulton Street and rearranged. I love that spot. Our little stonehenge.
So the secret is out! We were wondering! Why is it laid out like that?
Ja, we don't know. We have no records. Our church has a very poor memory. When we moved to Park Slope in 1889 from our former home downtown, on Joralemon Street, the congregation had gotten down to very few and was pretty much restarted, and seems to have left its past behind.
All we know is that while they were quite conservative they could also be suddenly creative and unpredictable, like having a circular graveyard, and building their impossibly audacious sanctuary on Seventh Avenue.
Very un-Dutch-Reformed, to have a graveyard that has such Chi in it, such pre-Christian pagan sympathies, you would have expected nice neat straight rows.
Very un-Dutch-Reformed, to have a sanctuary that so suggests mystical transcendence, with a central plan, drawing your soul up to the middle, as opposed to the rationally linear plan meeting-houses of the time.
Who can explain it? I can't.
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