Videos | Grove Street Cemetery

	Colonial Gravestones & the Typographic Standard, Video 1 Nicholas Benson, proprietor of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, lectures at Grove Street Cemetery in April 2015.
	Colonial Gravestones & the Typographic Standard, Video 2 Nicholas Benson, proprietor of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, lectures at Grove Street Cemetery in April 2015.
	Colonial Gravestones & the Typographic Standard, Video 3 Nicholas Benson, proprietor of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, lectures at Grove Street Cemetery in April 2015.
	An Active Cemetery This is a short video clip describing Grove Street Cemetery’s role as a still active cemetery, taken from the documentary “Grove Street Cemetery: City of the Dead, City of the Living” which was produced and directed by Karyl K. Evans.
	Introduction to the Cemetery This is a short introductory video clip about Grove Street Cemetery, taken from the documentary “Grove Street Cemetery: City of the Dead, City of the Living” which was produced and directed by Karyl K. Evans.
	Founding Fathers This is a short video clip about Grove Street Cemetery’s founding fathers, taken from the documentary “Grove Street Cemetery: City of the Dead, City of the Living” which was produced and directed by Karyl K. Evans.
	Early History This is a short video clip about Grove Street Cemetery’s early history, taken from the documentary “Grove Street Cemetery: City of the Dead, City of the Living” which was produced and directed by Karyl K. Evans.

The Visual Arts at Grove Street Cemetery with Channing Harris

An exploration of some of the painters, sculptors, architects and others memorialized in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, this illustrated talk will present biographic notes, design of monuments, and the cultural, historical context of National Landmark Grove Street Cemetery.

This online talk took place on November 12, 2023.

Memories in Stone: The Geology of Grave Markers of the Grove Street Cemetery

An online talk by geologist Daniel Coburn of Southern Connecticut State University, about the cemetery’s collection of gravestones and family monuments, as well as some of the notable figures in the history of earth science who are buried there.

This online talk took place on November 10, 2024.

Seven Things You Probably Didn't Know About English Cemeteries

A talk by Dr Ian Dungavell, Chief Executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, in conjunction with the quasquibicentennial of the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.

English garden cemeteries have a lot in common with those of the nineteenth-century rural cemetery movement in America. The story of beautifully laid-out grounds ornamented with trees, shrubs and flowers providing a garden of rest distinct from the overcrowded and unsanitary urban graveyard can be told equally of both countries. But, delving a little deeper into the first two decades of cemetery establishment in England, and taking in Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Norwich and London, this lecture will show that the tranquil sepulchral garden was not as quiet as it seemed. Nor is it quiet now: how can we make them sustainable for today?

This online talk took place on November 6, 2022.