Does this happen to you? I'll bet not.
Picture this: You open up your email box in Honolulu to find a message from someone you've never met before. This gentleman tells you that he is in possession of a brownstone grave marker dated from the late 18th century.
The woman it memorializes is interred somewhere in Greenwich -but where?
It has been in the basement for many years. The house in the market, and the stone must be repatriated to its proper place.
You've enlisted the help of far-flung historians and genealogists in the Pacific Northwest and Scotland -and the Greenwich Historical Society.
Time is not necessarily on your side.
Join me for the next broadcast of Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. My guest is New York-based architect Norm Davis.
With all-things Halloween in the air, Norm -who is a descendant of some of Greenwich's founding families- tells us the story of a that wayward early Greenwich gravestone circa 1799 that was found in his father's Port Chester NY backyard. Stored in the house for many years -and with the house on the market- the grave marker needed to be repatriated to its proper place.
Yes, this does turn out well.
Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons broadcasts from the studios of 1490 WGCH Greenwich, Connecticut and anywhere via audio-streaming on WGCH.com.
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