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The Lively Place: Mount Auburn, America’s First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents

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The story of one of the most Boston area’s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and “residents” have influenced American culture

When Mount Auburn Cemetery used to be founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, situated not far from Harvard University, used to be also a place that reflected and instilled an imperative to preserve and give protection to nature in a abruptly industrializing culture—lessons that would influence the creation of Central Park, the cemetery at Gettysburg, and the National Parks system. Even nowadays this urban natural world habitat and nationally recognized hotspot for migratory songbirds continues to connect visitors with nature and serves as a model for sustainable landscape practices. Beyond Mount Auburn’s prescient center of attention on conservation, it also reflects the affect of Transcendentalism and the progressive spirit in American life seen in advances in science, art, and religion and in social reform movements. In The Full of life Place, Stephen Kendrick celebrates this vital piece of our nation’s history, as he tells the story of Mount Auburn’s founding, its legacy, and the many influential Americans interred there, from religious leaders to abolitionists, poets, and reformers.

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