Green River Cemetery
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Green River Cemetery is cemetery in Springs, New York in East Hampton (town), New York.
The cemetery which was originally intended for the blue collar local families (called Bonackers) of the Springs neighborhood who supported the ocean mansions in East Hampton (village), New York. Families with long histories in the region are there particularly the Millers, Kings, Bennetts, and Talmages.
However, after Jackson Pollock was buried on a hill there in 1956, it became famous as the artist and writers cemetery. Headstones have become works of art.
There are no rivers -- much less a Green River -- near the cemetery.
Included are:
- Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) - artist
- Stuart Davis (painter) (1892[94?]-1964) - cubist artist
- Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) - artist and wife of abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, who is not buried there
- Jimmy Ernst - (1920-1984) artist and son of Max Ernst
- Lee Krasner (1908-1984) - artist and wife of Jackson Pollock
- Abraham Rattner (1895-1978) - artist
- Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) - music composer
- Steven J. Ross (1927-1992) - CEO who engineered the merger of Time-Warner
- Alan Pakula (1928-1998) - film director of To Kill A Mockingbird, Klute and All the President's Men
- Pierre Franey (1921-1996) - food author
- A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) - newspaper columnist
- Jean Stafford (1915-1979) - Pulitzer Prize winning writer
- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) - Poet
- Fred Coe (1914-1979) - Television producer of The Philco Television Playhouse
[edit] External links
- East Hampton Star history of cemetery
- Findagrave profil
- Rootsweb profile
- Newsday history of Long Island
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local
- Satellite image from Google Maps, Windows Live Local, WikiMapia
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
