James Melchiorre

Sep 7, 2023 | trinitywallstreet.org | James Melchiorre

Trinity Church Wall Street is working with its community partners in lower Manhattan to help students and their families kick off the new school year with backpacks, 4,500 of them, filled with school supplies. As the New York City public schools open this week, Trinity Vicar, the Rev. Michael Bird, blessed backpacks at The Loisaida Center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, with students from the local community and family members taking part.

Aug 11, 2023 | trinitywallstreet.org | James Melchiorre

Angelica Schuyler Church, whose final resting place is in the Trinity Churchyard, was a well-connected woman on two continents. She became a famous name this century as a Schuyler sister in the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” but even in her own time Angelica had achieved a level of celebrity that would put an Instagram influencer to shame.

Jul 28, 2023 | trinitywallstreet.org | James Melchiorre

A visitor to the churchyard of Trinity Church Wall Street quickly notices that the majority of persons who are buried there died in the 1700s. The 18th century seems so distant to us now that we often must be reminded of the very contemporary issues that animated the lives of those long-ago citizens of New York.

Jun 9, 2023 | trinitywallstreet.org | James Melchiorre |Ron Chernow

Even with eight children and a husband whose activities kept him occupied outside the home, Eliza contributed to Hamilton’s prolific writing, including George Washington’s farewell address. In 1793, she plunged into the work of relief for refugees of the French Revolution, including clothing and food. During a three-year period from 1801 to 1804, Eliza Hamilton’s sister, oldest son, husband, and father all died.

Jun 2, 2023 | trinitywallstreet.org | James Melchiorre

For many decades, perhaps even until today, schoolchildren in the United States have known something about Robert Fulton. Usually one thing, that he invented the steamboat. That’s not exactly true, although Fulton definitely parlayed his skill as an engineer, technologist, and businessman to create a highly profitable enterprise. Born in 1765 in a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, about 50 miles west of Philadelphia, Robert Fulton initially wanted to make his name as a portrait painter.