Here’s a fascinating opportunity for those that like to visit obscure, historic graveyards. If you’ve heard about the Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park, there will be an opportunity to visit it on June 28 for a play about the people buried there. We will let the sponsors explain via an email they sent us (and a number of local blogs):

The Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park will be open to the public on June 28th for a play about the people buried there. The Quaker Cemetery is a beautiful place in Prospect Park that is generally closed to the public. The event is part of our Brooklyn Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) 150th Anniversary…Guides will greet people at the gate to the Cemetery and usher them from grave site to grave site (1820-2008, over 14 sites of individuals and families) providing historical context to this 200 + year old burial ground. A Friend will represent the interred at each grave site and tell about their life and times.

The cemetery is located off Prospect Park Southwest and 16th Street, south of the Long Meadow along Center Drive. There are signs. The event takes place on Saturday, June 28, from 2PM-4PM with a rain date of June 29 from 2PM-4PM. It’s free, but donations will be accepted. In the book of interesting and different Brooklyn things to do, this is high on the list.
[Photo courtesy of A Year in the Park]