Lee Harper Oswald

So, yesterday I said I was only on my laptop to go look for fun things to do around Sleepy Hollow, NY — for birthday shenanigans. There are numerous cemetery tours. I think we’ll do a “Murder and Mayhem” tour of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on the evening of my birthday. But during the day…

Spooky lantern cemetery tours are what you do in October, and they are fine and dandy (if pricey), but you know what’s free? Hitting the boneyards on your own during the day, which is something I like to do in my free time anyway, so, of course, I hit up Find-A-Grave to see what’s in the area. I thought, oh, I’ll just find a little something to pass the daylight hours until spooky-spook tour time, and what do I find?

Dang, Ferncliff. I am pumped. Famous people? Man, we got ’em.

James Baldwin

Bela Bartok

Yul Brenner

Cab Calloway

Joan Crawford

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

Judy Garland

Jim Henson

Jeffrey Glenn Miller

Jam Master Jay

John Lennon

Moms Mabley

Thelonius Monk

Basil Rathbone

Christopher Reeve

Paul Robeson

Preston Sturges

Ed Sullivan

Conrad Veidt

Malcom X

…among a bunch of others.

Who am I most excited for? Conrad Veidt. I have a 27-year-old Cabinet of Doctor Caligari tattoo that’s itching to meet him.

Anyway, Ferncliff Cemetery is about 15 minutes from where we’re staying, so…obviously…