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Passing of Conservancy Founder and Bayside's One of a Kind
Dear Friends,
I regret to inform you that Mandingo Osceola Tshaka passed away on May 10, 2022, two days before his 91st birthday. He passed at Hillside Manor Nursing Home in Jamaica where he had lived for a number of years. His home on 46th Avenue in Bayside has been in his family for over one hundred years.Mandingo was a strong advocate for his community, president of his civic association, Bayside Clear Spring, a former member of Queens Community Board 11, and the Co-Chair of the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy. He spent many years working to get the 19th century cemetery, where up to one thousand people rest, treated with the dignity and respect it deserved. He and the Conservancy made great progress in doing so, however, there is still much work to be done.
Mandingo liked to refer to himself as Bayside's One of a Kind. That he truly was!
May he rest in peace. He now sings with the angels!
-Henry Euler
Conservancy Spring Event Success
Seeking replacement for the four marble headstones destroyed when the WPA paved over the cemetery has been a longtime mission of the Conservancy.
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Artwork of Alexandria Smith exhibited at Queens Musuem
Alexandria Smith’s Monuments to an Effigy takes the histories of The Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground and the Macedonia A.M.E. Church in Flushing, Queens as points of departure for an exhibition that evokes an altar or commemorative space.
OTFGBC In the News
See the write up and photos of the Burial Ground on the Queens Memory website.
