Do check out the Times story and slideshow on last week's performance of "The Spoon River Project" in the cemetery:
“The Spoon River Project” is part of Green-Wood’s efforts to breach its own forbidding stone walls and restore some of the cultural energy — if not the undercurrent of populist hucksterism — that enlivened this 478-acre city of the dead back when it was second only to Niagara Falls as a New York State tourist attraction. Since opening its gates to the general public again in 1999 after a long period of decline, Green-Wood has welcomed the public with art exhibitions, theme trolley tours (baseball, music, crime) and an annual commemoration of the Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn, scheduled this year for Aug. 28.
“Victorian-era people built their final resting place with the anticipation that people would come and visit,” said Richard J. Moylan, the cemetery’s president, who took a summer job as a grass cutter back in 1972 and never left. “We want to get back to that.”