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…
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