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SUMMARY:New Haven Notables: The Dead Shall Be Raised Grove Street Cemetery 
 Tour and More
LOCATION:Grove Street Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:What do a female astronomer\, a famous inventor\, and New Haven
 ’s first mayor all have in common? They’re all interred in the world-r
 enowned Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven and will be included in the “
 New Haven Notables: The Dead Shall Be Raised Tour”offered by New Haven M
 useum in collaboration with the Friends of Grove Street Cemetery on Saturd
 ay\, October 24\, 2026. Tours will be offered at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and 
 12:30 p.m. Space is limited for these small group tours.On same day\, from
  12-4 p.m.\, the New Haven Museum will host its newest “What’s In the 
 Whitney Library” event\, with a look at the records for Grove Street Cem
 etery\, the Thomas Philips Monument Company\, and New Haven's stone engrav
 ers. Visitors can explore maps\, illustrations\, and papers of some of the
  historical figures in Grove Street Cemetery\, including Noah Webster\, Ro
 ger Sherman\, and James Hillhouse.Inspired by the Egyptian Revivalist gate
  at Grove Street Cemetery which bears the inscription “The Dead Shall Be
  Raised\,” the cemetery tours will visit the gravesites of remarkable pe
 ople buried in Grove Street cemetery and highlight their achievements and 
 explore the site’s history and noteworthy monuments.The tours will inclu
 de such notables as:· Ida Barney (1886 - 1982) American astronomer who sp
 ent most of her career at the Yale University Observatory\, best known for
  her astrometric measurements on 150\,000 stars.· Eli Whitney (1765 - 182
 5)\, Noted New Haven inventor· Noah Webster (1758 - 1843)\, Lexicographer
 \, dictionary publisher· Roger Sherman (1721 - 1793)\, First mayor of New
  Haven and the only person to have signed all four basic documents of Amer
 ican sovereignty\, including the Declaration of Independence.· Martha Tow
 nsend (1753 - 1797) First interment in Grove Street CemeteryThree voluntee
 rs from the Friends of Grove Street Cemetery will lead the tours:· Darlen
 e Casellais a member of the board of directors of the Friends of Grove Str
 eet Cemetery. She became a docent in 2006 and is currently the chief docen
 t and tour program coordinator at the cemetery. She gives general and priv
 ate tours upon request for a variety of organizations.· Daniel Lovins is 
 a member of the board of directors of the Friends of Grove Street Cemetery
  and has volunteered a docent for this national historic landmark for many
  years. He appears in the 2007 documentary\, "Grove Street Cemetery: City 
 of the Dead\, City of the Living." He serves as Yale Library'sDirector of 
 Resource Discovery Services.· Cindy Leffell is a member of Grove Street C
 emetery’s standing committee. In addition to being a docent\, she has al
 so served as president of the Eli Whitney Museum\, a Foote School board me
 mber and volunteer archivist\,and as a Peabody Museum docent. She is a boa
 rd member of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven and The To
 wers at Tower Lane.She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania an
 d an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. She came to New Haven as a
 n administrator and planner at Yale New HavenHospital\, andhas also worked
  as a real-estate appraiser\n\nBoletos: https://www.simpletix.com/e/new-ha
 ven-notables-the-dead-shall-be-raise-tickets-291017
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