Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 19-26, 1999

Volume 27, Number 29

Student stories focus on people
buried in historic cemetery

Yale students who have been using New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery as a classroom of sorts will share what they've learned about the individuals buried in the historic graveyard at a special event and dinner discussion on Tuesday, April 27, titled "Collecting from the Stones: Youthful Stories of Old New Haven."

The event, sponsored by Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery, Inc., will be held at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave.

The evening will feature presentations by Eric Papenfuse, a Ph.D. candidate and Prize Teaching Fellow in the history department, and the Yale students who have taken his spring seminar "The Dead Shall Be Raised: A Cultural History of Grove Street Cemetery."

The interdisciplinary course, sponsored by Saybrook and Calhoun Colleges, uses studies of religious thought and visual culture, architectural histories and intellectual biographies to examine the evolution of the Grove Street Cemetery from its founding in 1796 to the present.

In the class, the students did grave-rubbings, studied the histories of other local cemeteries and wrote final research papers on the life of someone interred in the cemetery, using the collections of the Yale libraries and the New Haven Colony Historical Society.

"Collecting from Old Stones" will open with cocktails at 6 p.m. The program and dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a talk by Papenfuse, who has published several works on early American history, including the book "Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery," which was based on his Yale College senior essay. Following his talk about the Grove Street Cemetery, students will make presentations about their work. In addition, each dinner table will include undergraduates from the seminar.

Tickets for the event are $25. To make a reservation, call Barbara Mitchell at 432-8613.

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