![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Clement Clarke Moore Ceremony in 2011Īt 4:00 p.m. One hundred and one years later, despite decades of change at the church and in the community surrounding it (and despite compelling evidence that Moore didn’t actually write the poem) the tradition the Sunday school children inaugurated that Christmas morning continues. Nicholas (better known as ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas). Their destination was a simple gravestone a few yards from the towering wall at the cemetery’s western border, a gravestone marking the burial place of Clement Clarke Moore, Biblical scholar, Professor of Classics at the General Theological Seminary in New York City (which he founded), author of a Hebrew Lexicon, and most remembered for composing the perennial Christmas favorite, A Visit from St. ![]() Singing Christmas carols and bearing a large holly wreath, they processed along Broadway to 155th Street, then down the steep hill towards the river and through the gates into Trinity Cemetery. Stretched up Broadway and covered Audubon Park (left in the picture).Ĭhristmas morning 1911, one hundred Sunday school children marched out of the Gothic church at the corner of Broadway and 158th Street. The Church of the Intercession in 1905 by 1911 apartment buildings ![]()
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