Woodlawn Cemetery

While in New York City I visited both Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx and Trinity Church Cemetery and discovered the graves of two prominent New York businessmen, Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy’s Department Stores, and John Jacob Astor IV, real estate tycoon, who both perished on the Titanic on April 15, 1912. As the story […]

On my walk at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City, I discovered one of the most fascinating grave monuments I’ve come across on my many cemetery walks — the grave of the great American novelist, Herman Melville, who many consider the author of the greatest novel ever written, Moby-Dick (1851). Tucked along a […]