Foreword 1. A Proper Place in the American Revolution 2. A Pretty Natural Situation: Founding a Rural Cemetery 3. New York's Burial Crisis 4. Designing a Cemetery with Andrew Jackson Downing 5. Order out of Chaos and the Rise of William R. Grace 6. Soldiers and Conspirators: The Evergreens in the Civil 7: Cover them Over: Decoration Day at the Cemetery 8.

African Americans at Peace and War 9. Crooks, Competitors, Writers, and Congressmen 10: The Poetry of Their Existence: Artists of the Evergreens 11. The Cemetery-Park and its Management 12. Buried from the Home 13. Angels Beside the Tomb: Monuments Grand and Humble 14. What Could Anyone Do? Brooklyn's Disasters 15. Feng Shui at the Evergreens 16: The Two Anthonies: The Showman and the Scold 17. Show People 18.

Blind Tom, the Queen of the Trumpet, Bojangles, and the Pres 19. On the Grounds: A Rural Cemetery in the Twenty-First Century.