tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537830199527100522.post1022410498892226479..comments2023-09-17T08:20:41.628-07:00Comments on 4 Years in Brooklyn: GIGLIO FESTIVAL - OUR LADY OF MOUTH CARMEL IN WILLIAMSBURGUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537830199527100522.post-946584827574466032020-07-20T18:44:57.339-07:002020-07-20T18:44:57.339-07:00Hi Ron, I only just now saw your comment. It'...Hi Ron, I only just now saw your comment. It's a wonderful comment and brought me to New York once again. Thank you so much for that! Did you enjoy your visit?4 Years in Brooklynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15987600690987751083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537830199527100522.post-9965012861639648902016-10-01T00:36:30.342-07:002016-10-01T00:36:30.342-07:00For a large part of Brooklyn, Holy Cross Cemetery ...For a large part of Brooklyn, Holy Cross Cemetery in East Flatbush was the primary resting place for many Brooklyn and greater NY area Catholic families from 1849 thru at least the 1980s, especially the Irish and Italians. Re: http://www.ccbklyn.org/our-cemeteries/holy-cross-cemetery/.<br /><br />In some plots, due to lack of burial options anywhere else, several generations of the same family would be interred, with the latest interment lying on top of the earlier ones. As I understand it, burials still occur this way, as there are no more unsold plots available. As long as a family owns a plot in the cemetery, it can add later generations to that same plot. <br /><br />Some of the memorials and monuments are quite large and ornate, especially for some of the Italians. Many of the Italian names I saw when we visited and were searching for my wife's family plots last week were the same as some of the prominent NY mob leaders, although I didn't study them in any detail. <br /><br />My wife grew up on a cul-de-sac street immediately adjoining the north side of the cemetery, and was telling me about their closest neighbors. 8 out of 10 were, by their surnames, Irish or Italian. She went to and graduated in 1966 from a local Catholic (all girls) high school, St. Brendan's, in south Brooklyn, which is still a Catholic school. At their 50th HS reunion, and in their HS yearbook, a huge preponderance of their maiden surnames were very obviously Irish and Italian, with a sprinkle of Slavic. <br /><br />We visited her old street, and their local Catholic Parish church, and as you mentioned in one post, the current residents were largely black and primarily relatively recent emigrants from African nations. The current parish priest was from Ghana. Everyone we met and spoke with in the neighborhood was very friendly and helpful.<br /><br />Ron Goodman, TJHS Class of '67.Ron Goodmanhttp://www.goodmanhistory.comnoreply@blogger.com