Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY (8/21/2022)

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Today we will concentrate on Nyack in Rockland County, NY. Oak Hill Cemetery is the final resting place for at least one author, one artist, and one famous actress.

A misty view of the popularly-called New Tappan Zee Bridge
(officially the Governor Mario M Cuomo Bridge,
2013-2018), a three-mile, twin-span cable-stayed
bridge that is the longest in New York State

Carson McCullers was an author, playwright, and poet, who
is best known for her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Grave marker of Marguerite Waters,
the mother of Carson McCullers

Grave marker of Margarita G Smith,
sister of Carson McCullers

Grave marker of Mary E Mercer, MD, psychiatrist
and partner of Carson McCullers

Grave marker of the painter and printmaker Edward Hopper
and his wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, also an artist

Grave marker of Garret H Hopper and Elizabeth Smith Hopper,
parents of Edward Hopper

Grave marker of Marion Hopper, sister of Edward Hopper

Yikes! A hornet nest on an innocent-
looking grave marker

Grave marker of actress Helen Hayes MacArthur

Grave marker of James Gordon MacArthur, the adopted son
of Helen Hayes and playwright Charles Gordon Macarthur;
James MacArthur starred as Danny "Danno" Williams
 in the television series Hawaii Five-O

Grave marker of Mary MacArthur, daughter of
Charles Gordon MacArthur by his first wife; Mary died
of polio at age 19 and has a Girl Scout marker with her name

A general view of Oak Hill Cemetery

Next: Edward Hopper Tour.