Lake View Cemetery

So for Lake View's 150th anniversary, he spent 12 late nights shooting the cemetery's monuments under moonlight."A cloud drifted over its face" [Michael Weil]The exhibit is more than just an assignment for Weil as his grandfather, father and son are buried there.His son, Josh, died in a car crash in 2015, and Weil became familiar with Lake View President and CEO Kathy Goss while making the funeral arrangements.When he'd approached Goss years earlier with his idea of photographing the cemetery during off hours, the idea didn't go anywhere.But circumstances changed following his son's passing, and as the 150th anniversary approached for 2019 Goss gave Weil the key to the cemetery."Stella and the Wasps" [Michael Weil]From January to December of 2018, Weil went to Lake View on or around the full moon with his camera."As I travelled in Lake View at night I noticed things I never noticed at daytime," Weil said. "Moonlight is a much different experience than daylight.""Black Moon Light" [Michael Weil]Some of the monuments that stood out in the darkness were the Peck family gravestone sculptures."Right across from Garfield near Rockefeller are these two cloaked female figures," he said. "They are life size and so haunting and intriguing.""Gallicineum" [Michael Weil]A challenge was that he was always on high alert given the late-night aspect of each moonlit shoot."My fight or flight mechanisms were at work. So any sounds I heard, any movement, definitely my nerves were on end. So I had to stay balanced and focused, no pun intended," he said."We in the Grottot" [Michael Weil]He got the opportunity to go inside the James A. Garfield Memorial, which was a haunting experience."The key is about a foot long, brass skeleton key that looks like something you would present to somebody as a key to the city or something from the Wizard of Oz," he said.  "You turn it and you hear the clanking and the gears moving. I pushed that big door open and the echoing throughout this empty Garfield monumen...

He was 90 years old.When he started on dialysis in 2013, David created a website, www.daviddinglemystory.com to celebrate his life, his career, his family and his music. The website now includes a video in which David shares his acceptance of “the things we cannot change.”Having retired to the North Fork in 2003 after a long and varied career in business and music, David started The David Dingle Trio, and performed throughout the East End, where he made many new friends.Committed to serving his communities, David was chaplain of Kane Masonic Lodge in NYC, deacon at Brick Presbyterian Church (NYC), trustee of the Rotary Club of New York, and an elder at First Presbyterian Church of Southold.He is survived by his wife Susan; his five children, Michael, Leslie, Jeffrey, Christopher, and Mark; his stepson Jake Koprowski; his former wives Elizabeth Sevringhaus Warner and Celia Drayson Ryan; 11 grandchildren and seven step-grandchildren.Cremation took place on Aug. 22, with a committal service conducted privately. A memorial service of Witness to the Resurrection will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Southold on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 12 noon, with reception to follow. Interment will take place at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland in spring 2020.The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in memory of David H. Dingle to the Cutchogue Fire Department, 260 New Suffolk Road NY 11935; the Family Community Life Center, 1018 Northville Turnpike, Riverhead NY 11901; or www.woundedwarriorproject.org.DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold is serving the family.

SAXON, Wis. - A unique ceremony was held Saturday at the graveside of a Civil War veteran in Lake View Cemetery in Saxon.More than 100 people watched as five members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Old Abe Camp 8 post near Appleton, honored Chester Huntsinger, who passed away in 1914 as Iron County's last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War. Members of the area American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Vietnam Veterans Chapter of Iron County also participated with an honor guard, a bugler to play "Taps" and fire a three-shot rifle volley."This is pretty amazing," said Ron Trone, adjutant and chaplain of American Legion Post 371 in Saxon. "This is probably the one time in my life that something like this will come up."The ceremony is adapted from the ceremonies established by the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Veterans themselves, said Kim Heltemes, commander of Old Abe Camp 8. The children and grandchildren have carried on with the ceremony ever since."It was important to them," Heltemes said. "It was important enough that they started the Sons of Union Veterans."The Grand Army of the Republic was established because the veterans did not want America to forget what they did, he said. Events like this are to educate people about the war so that it will not be forgotten."That's what we do," Heltemes said.Heltemes was present with fellow Old Abe Camp 8 members Brian Peters, Jim Schumann, Sam Solberg and Kirby Scott. The ceremony involved placing a black cloth on the headstone followed by the grommet and ashes of a ceremonially discarded flag onto the grave. A bronze plaque commemorating Huntsinger as the last man was installed at his grave."Teach us to be ever mindful of the sacrifices of those who have gone before us and hold in your tender mercies the defenders of this great country," Solberg said, reading from the original Grand Army of the Republic ceremony. "If I may be so bold as to quote from the epitaph from another time and place, 'tell them of us and say, for their tomorr...