Black Friday is a walk in the park, with guided hikes and neighborhood strolls throughout the weekend.
Mount Hope Cemetery
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Calendar preview: Getting schooled
This week’s preview highlights some local opportunities to learn, expand perspectives, and engage meaningfully in important conversations.
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Rochester’s cemeteries as parks
Beyond visiting the resting places of family and friends, spending time near graves might seem like the domain of moody teens or vandals. But in many ways, cemeteries are ideal places to spend a peaceful morning or afternoon, alone with your thoughts while you’re jogging or in the company of friends.
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The future of Rochester’s past
One look at the organ’s arthritic keys and crumbling casing tells you that this old instrument has hummed its last hallelujah. The entire chapel, known as the 1912 chapel at Mount Hope Cemetery, is a gorgeous, decayed thing — a survival-horror movie set waiting for a location scout. It’s one of two defunct chapels in […]
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Good souls: Cemetery care often falls to volunteers
Peggy Byrd crosses a thick mat of grass in Mount Hope Cemetery on her way to a large monument next to a tight row of small headstones. One of the stones is engraved, “Margaret Van Ingen Weston 1902-1990.” “There’s my Aunt [Margaret],” Byrd says. “By just going into the cemetery office and asking where my […]
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Trees for Mount Hope
Hundreds of trees in the historic Mount Hope Cemetery have fallen victim in recent years to weather, old age, and disease — about 250 trees since 2010. The comforting canopy of oaks, maples, spruces, and other tree varieties is a vital part of the aesthetic of the historic cemetery, officials say, so plans are under […]
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Mount Hope Cemetery: A buried treasure
Many know Mount Hope as the final resting place for notable Rochesterians like Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and others. But countless other interesting facts and legends surround the burial grounds.
