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This documentary explores New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark founded in 1797. The film takes a look at the cemetery’s historical significance, the people interred there, funerary art, landscape plantings, and the extensive community involvement with the site. Commissioned by the Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery, it was produced, directed, and edited by the Emmy Award-winning New Haven filmmaker Karyl K. Evans. (30 minutes)
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A talk by Dr Ian Dungavell, Chief Executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, in conjunction with the quasquibicentennial of the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.
English garden cemeteries have a lot in common with those of the nineteenth-century rural cemetery movement in America. The story of beautifully laid-out grounds ornamented with trees, shrubs and flowers providing a garden of rest distinct from the overcrowded and unsanitary urban graveyard can be told equally of both countries. But, delving a little deeper into the first two decades of cemetery establishment in England, and taking in Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Norwich and London, this lecture will show that the tranquil sepulchral garden was not as quiet as it seemed. Nor is it quiet now: how can we make them sustainable for today?
This online talk took place on November 6, 2022.
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An exploration of some of the painters, sculptors, architects and others memorialized in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, this illustrated talk will present biographic notes, design of monuments, and the cultural, historical context of National Landmark Grove Street Cemetery.
This online talk took place on November 12, 2023.
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An online talk by geologist Daniel Coburn of Southern Connecticut State University, about the cemetery’s collection of gravestones and family monuments, as well as some of the notable figures in the history of earth science who are buried there.
This online talk took place on November 10, 2024.
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Grove Street Cemetery celebrated its bicentennial in 1997 with two events. The first was a commemorative ceremony, held October 19, 1997, which featured speakers and historical reenactors performing on the grounds. The second event was a three-day symposium held the following May at the New Haven Colony Historical Society (now the New Haven Museum) that focused on the cemetery’s past, present, and future. In addition to six sessions with presentations by scholars and cultural leaders, eight cemetery tours were offered to registrants, as well as performances by costumed actors interpreting the lives of nine people buried in the cemetery.
Nicholas Benson, proprietor of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, lectures at Grove Street Cemetery in April 2015.