P.G. Wodehouse Day
16th December 2024
In the hamlet of Remsenburg, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York lies a small cemetery behind the chapel of the Remsenburg Community Church. There one finds the modest final resting place of a great American, marked by a substantial rectangular headstone with a large open book sculpted on top, in which is inscribed from top to bottom:
Jeeves
Blanding’s Castle
Leave it to Psmith
Meet Mister Mulliner
Beneath this on the wide headstone you see the name of the great American:
Sir Pelham Grenville
WODEHOUSE
At the very bottom of the headstone are the words:
HE GAVE JOY TO COUNTLESS PEOPLE