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

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.

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.