Including the grave of Val Telberg at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
from "Take a Hike on These Wonderful Hamptons Walking Trails"
http://www.danspapers.com/2018/05/01/hike-hamptons-walking-trails/
http://www.danspapers.com/2018/05/01/hike-hamptons-walking-trails/
... Visit Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor. Founded in 1840, Oakland currently sits on 26 acres and is the permanent resting place of over 4,000 people, including more 18th- and 19th-century sea captains than in any other Long Island cemetery. Among the treasures in Oakland is the Broken Mast Monument, which commemorates all the whalers “Who periled their lives in a daring profession and perished in actual encounter with the monsters of the deep.”
The long, mostly flat rows offer a quiet place to reflect while paying your respects to some members of the oldest families on the East End and many other historically significant individuals. Writers Nelson Algren, William Gaddis, Spalding Gray, Prentice Mulford and James Salter are all buried there. So are local astronomer, clockmaker, scientist and bookbinder Ephraim Byrum (whose historic house is next door), founder of the New York Ballet, George Balanchine, U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, artists Hans Namuth, Val Telberg and so many more....
