Gates recalled his inspiration for the Christmas ceremony. Interviewed for an article that appeared in the Washington Herald on December 14, 1913, the Rev. Milo Gates and His Christmas Festival: Sentimentality with a Strong Dose of Practicality Clement Clarke Moore’s gave site in Trinity Cemetery The walking tour begins at the northwest corner of Broadway and 155th Street in front of the gate to Audubon Terrace and costs $15 per person. Washington will lead a Christmas walking tour of Trinity Cemetery, ending at the church in time for the celebration. The event is open to the public, free of charge.Įarlier in the afternoon (at 1.30 p.m.), historian, author, and tour guide Eric K. Intercession’s celebration also includes a slide show presentation at 3.00 p.m.
Afterward a candlelight procession will proceed to Moore’s grave site for a wreath laying, carol sing, and reception. on December 18th, jazz musician Ron Carter will read the cherished Christmas poem, “Twas the Night Before Christmas” in the Church of the Intercession at Broadway and 155th Street during the one hundred and first “Clement Moore” ceremony. The Clement Clarke Moore Ceremony in 2011Īt 4:00 p.m. One hundred and one years later, despite decades of change at the church and in the community surrounding it (and despite compelling evidence that Moore didn’t actually write the poem) the tradition the Sunday school children inaugurated that Christmas morning continues. Nicholas (better known as ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas). Their destination was a simple gravestone a few yards from the towering wall at the cemetery’s western border, a gravestone marking the burial place of Clement Clarke Moore, Biblical scholar, Professor of Classics at the General Theological Seminary in New York City (which he founded), author of a Hebrew Lexicon, and most remembered for composing the perennial Christmas favorite, A Visit from St.
Singing Christmas carols and bearing a large holly wreath, they processed along Broadway to 155th Street, then down the steep hill towards the river and through the gates into Trinity Cemetery. Stretched up Broadway and covered Audubon Park (left in the picture).Ĭhristmas morning 1911, one hundred Sunday school children marched out of the Gothic church at the corner of Broadway and 158th Street. The Church of the Intercession in 1905 by 1911 apartment buildings
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