NEWLY DISCOVERED AT GREEN-WOOD: ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S TELEGRAPHER AND CONFIDANT, CHARLIE TINKER

WHAT: Green-Wood will host a talk and trolley tour about Green-Wood permanent resident Charlie Tinker
-- confidant to President Abraham
Lincoln and War Department telegraph operator during the Civil War. The influential role of the telegrapher in
Lincoln’s war
strategy was recently featured in Steven Spielberg’s film, Lincoln.

One hundred and fifty years after the delivery of
the Gettysburg Address, it is altogether fitting and proper to honor Mr. Tinker and his role in the Civil War. 

Ronda Rich, award-winning author and a Tinker
descendant by marriage, will lead guests on a fascinating exploration of Tinker’s life using primary source documents, including Tinker’s
personal diaries that have
been handed down to family members through the generations.

After the talk, Ms. Rich and Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman will lead a trolley tour to the Tinker Family
lot. En route, stops will be made at Green-Wood’s Civil War Soldiers Monument, the Civil War
Soldiers lot, the final
resting places of actress Laura Keene who was on stage at Ford’s Theatre
the night President Lincoln was
assassinated, and Brooklyn’s 12-year-old “Little
Drummer Boy” Clarence Mackenzie, Brooklyn’s first
casualty of the Civil War, and other
locations.

WHEN: Saturday, December 14,
2013 – 1:00 p.m.

The talk is one hour and the trolley tour will last approximately two hours.

Historic Green-Wood Cemetery – Enter at the main gate (25th Street
at 5th Avenue, Brooklyn)
Meet in Historic Chapel Via Subway:
From the Atlantic/ Barclays Center stop
in Brooklyn, take the R train to 25th (Service on the R train between
Manhattan and Brooklyn
is suspended until October 2014.) Walk east
one block to Green-Wood at 5th Avenue and 25th Street. Free parking is available.

COST: The talk is free. The
trolley tour is $20 for the public; $15
for members of Green-Wood Historic Fund and the Brooklyn
Historical Society. To make an online reservation or to find out more
information, visit www.green-wood.com/toursevents or
call 718-210-3080.

NOTE: This event has two parts,
with separate tickets for each
part. Please include both free talk tickets and trolley tour tickets in
your order if you would like to attend both parts
of the event. Seating is
limited for both the talk and the trolley tour, and reservations are
recommended.