Alexandra Kathryn Mosca — Exploring Life and Death: A Writer's Journey

This summer I finally made it to East Hampton to visit Green River Cemetery. It had been on my list of cemeteries to visit for a long time. And while I’d read a lot about it and included it in an article I wrote for Newsday about tombstone tourism on Long Island, seeing it was something else.

Many of the graves are marked by boulders, rather than tombstones. It may have been a traditional begun by Artist Jackson Pollock, and his wife Lee Krasner.

Actor Peter Boyle, too, chose a boulder to mark his final resting place.

As does Steven J. Ross, the former CEO of Time Warner. 

Green River is filled with out-of-the-ordinary styles of memorialization. These film reels mark the grave of Stan VanDerBeek, an acclaimed independent film maker. Talk about unique!