Old Cemetery Tour, Bridgehampton, Saturday, May 26th, 10am

John Mitty Friday, May 18, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

John Eilertsen, Executive Director
Sally Spanburgh, Program Coordinator
Bridgehampton Historical Society
t: (631) 537-1088                                                                                               
bhhs@optonline.net
www.bridgehamptonhistoricalsociety.org

PHOTO ATTACHED: Old Cemetery, 2010, Courtesy of the Bridgehampton Historical Society

“Old Cemetery Tour, Main Street Bridgehampton”

Saturday May 26th, 10am, Bridgehampton, NY., with Tony Garro

Join Bridgehampton Historical Society’s animated docent, Tony Garro, for a traipse through the Old Cemetery, just east of the Presbyterian Church in Bridgehampton, on Main Street, on Saturday, May 26^th, at 10pm.

Ann Sandford, local resident and historian, described the cemetery in the Bridgehampton Heritage Area Report. “The burying ground on Main Street, an independent cemetery incorporated as the “Old Cemetery Association of Bridgehampton,” contains stones with names that stand out in the hamlet’s history, as well as inscriptions which exemplify important aspects of Bridgehampton’s past.”

In coordination with the society’s 2012 summer exhibits, the tour will highlight whaling captains from greater Bridgehampton. Find out about them, whether the cemetery has any affiliation with the churches on either side of it, and about the many generations of local families that have been laid to rest at this beautiful park-like spot lined with buckeye trees in downtown Bridgehampton.

jmitty@longislandyellowpages.com

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