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Trinity trick-or-treating

At Trinity Church Wall Street for the Halloween celebration of “Ghouls, Games and Graves.” From 4PM onwards, the North Churchyard — the oldest surviving churchyard in the city, with stones dating to the early 18th century — hosted a series of family-friendly events. Adorably costumed kids (and their guardians) were out in full force this mild late afternoon for treats, games, crafts, and face-painting. The “ghost” of Alexander Hamilton (buried here at Trinity; Aaron Burr is safely entombed across the river in Princeton Cemetery) roamed among the guests telling stories of New York’s past.

Had I stayed on past dark, I could have attended Trinity Church’s screening of the 1922 silent vampire classic Nosferatu — the earliest surviving screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Adding to the spooky ambiance, in place of dialogue, the film was to be accompanied by Cameron Carpenter on the church’s state-of-the-art electronic organ, which was installed in 2003 to replace the Aeolian-Skinner damaged on September 11, 2001. (The controversial “virtual pipe organ” uses digital samples of actual pipe organ timbres, sent through speakers hidden behind dummy pipes.)

Watch Carpenter perform his own arrangement of John Williams’s Raiders of the Lost Ark  theme on the Trinity organ.

Tags: Cameron Carpenter, costumes, Halloween, kids, organ, Trinity Church

There are 5 Comments ... Trinity trick-or-treating

Qsoz
November 16, 2007

Look at those chubby cheeks!

jomama
November 18, 2007

Augustus was a chubby lad;
Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had;
And everybody saw with joy
The plump and hearty healthy boy.
He ate and drank as he was told,
And never let his soup get cold.

vipnyc
November 19, 2007

Welcome back, jomama!
Wow, haven’t thought about that one in ages. Looking back, it’s rather morbid for a children’s poem, no?

jomama
November 19, 2007

Some parents would do anything to get their children to eat their food. Alternatively, one can always instill a fear of dogs…

vipnyc
November 19, 2007

Who would do such a thing? 😉

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