The Grove Street Cemetery is many things: a site of memory and contemplation, a resource for studying the people and history of New Haven, and an arboretum with notable trees, but above all, it is a collection of geological specimens that were carefully selected and sculpted to mark the graves of local residents and families. A wide variety of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic stones are present on the grounds, and the differences in their composition and character offer an opportunity to explore their distinctive qualities. In some cases, the source of the stone can even be traced to regional quarries, which have their own storied pasts.

Join the Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery at 2 pm on Sunday, November 10, for 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 program is sponsored by the Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery and the Beinecke Library.

Zoom webinar registration: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIVZp9UbSey1Kka3B5rhkg