Originally posted by petofi on the Dark Shadows: General Discussion Forum on February 02, 2002 at 21:23:09:
I was flipping through the "Introduction of Barnabas," the Festival publication recounting the early Barnabas episodes, when a picture on page 112 caught my eye. On that page, there are two photo stills of a cemetery which were used on the show. This depiction is NOT the weedy, very old looking cemetery, but the one with several larger monuments dispersed among smaller stones. One of the monuments has the name "Asa Cooper" on it, with readable dates. Being curious, I logged on to
www.findagrave.com and punched in this info, along with the guessed cemetery location of New York State. Voila! It turns out that this man was buried in Montebello, NY, in the Maple Grove Cemetery there. To confirm that it is the same Asa Cooper, and the same monument as in the slide photo, there is a site photo of the stone that matches perfectly. Montebello is in Rockland County, upstate of NYC.
Encouraged by this find, I punched in the name "barnabas" in the non-famous grave search on the site, and got four different barnabas listings for New York. Bob Costello once mentioned in an interview that he got the name of a grave stone in Flushing. There were no Flushing Barnabases in the search return, but two of them came back from Suffolk County, on Long Island. This is fairly close to NYC and Flushing, but may be a stretch. Anyway, it was an interesting sourjourn into DS research for me, and at least one of the graveyards is now known to me. Any ideas as to where the other, weedy cemetery slide was taken? i would hazard either New York or Connecticut somewhere.
Petofi, out "diggin' up bones"
