This Friday I was reading Timothy Dwight’s papers at Yale. While I was there, Kellen Funk took me to the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven. Buried there are several ministers noteworthy in American religious history: Lyman Beecher, Naphtali Daggett, Timothy Dwight, Jedidiah Morse, Ezra Stiles, and Nathaniel Taylor.
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My First Semester in the Archives | The Backward Glance linked to this post on 12 January 2010
[...] I visited two other archives as well. I spent a day at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, which is just a couple hours down the Mass Pike. Since the AAS has probably the largest collection of materials on early America, I’ll likely be back often. I also spent a day at Yale’s archives in the Sterling Library. Because I finished earlier than I thought, Kellen took me to lunch at the Educated Burgher, and then on a tour of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and of New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery. [...]
Good pictures. Grove Street Cemetery is one of those places that lend themselves to peripatetic musing. There’s a certain irony to the phrase “The Dead Shall Be Raised” being inscribed on the Egyptian Revival entrance.