Friends of Mount Hope
What a beautiful day for the first ‘Second Saturday’ volunteer landscape outing of the season. We had a wonderful group of 30 volunteers, including college students from the University of […]
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We (Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery) would like to let you know about one of Mother Nature’s quiet – and awesome – annual spring events. It doesn’t involve ceremony, and […]
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While the interracial marriage between Helen Pitts of Honeoye, NY, and Frederick Douglass, pre-eminent leader of Nineteenth-Century Black America, scandalized many in the country and in Douglass’ family, Helen’s life […]
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Rochester and Central New York were a hotbed of social and religious change in 19th-century America. In the face of laws and practices designed to enforce the status quo of […]
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by Kerry Schauber Jacob Eisenman was born Jakub Ajzenman in Warsaw, Poland in 1920 to Szaps and Cypa Ajzenman. Although he rarely spoke later of his wartime experience, he would […]
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On December 17, 2022, at 12 noon, 7 wreaths were laid in the Civil War Plot at Mount Hope Cemetery, and 2 wreaths were placed at the Boyd and Parker […]
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