Tours
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH MOM
An “NYC Discovery” walking tour invites New Yorkers to spend Mother’s Day weekend in Central Park. The stroll focuses on the park’s floral beauty, with stops at Strawberry Fields, the Ramble, and the Literary Walk. Saturday and Sunday, noon and 2:30 p.m., 212-465-3331 for meeting place and reservations, $13.
GRAVE SIGHTS
Ruth Edebohls of the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment conducts a tour of Green-Wood Cemetery that focuses on its most notable women “residents” of the 19th and 20th centuries. The stroll stops by the grave of Elizabeth Tilton, whose purported affair with minister Henry Ward Beecher ignited a major New York scandal when the case went to trial.The tour also visits the final resting place of Irishwoman Eliza Gilbert, who reinvented herself as “Lola Montez, the Spanish Dancer” – she inspired the expression “Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets.” Other highlights include the graves of pioneering doctors Susan McKinney Steward and Mary Jacobi, abolitionist Abi gail Gibbons, and actresses Laura Keene and Kate Claxton. Saturday, 1 p.m., Green-Wood Cemetery, meet at main entrance, Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, Brooklyn, 718-768-7300, $11 general, $9 BCUE members, $8 seniors and students. Note: The walk may be hilly and strenuous, so attendees are advised to wear appropriate shoes.
EAST SIDE CEMETERY
Marble Cemetery, usually closed to the public, opens its gates this weekend. Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Marble Cemetery, East 2nd Street between First and Second avenues, free, donations welcome.
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