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

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Stephen Kendrick

The Lively Place

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Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents...

Stephen Kendrick

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Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Landscape art & architecture; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history

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

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

When Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Harvard University, was also a place that reflected and instilled an imperative to preserve and protect nature in a rapidly industrializing culture-lessons that would influence the creation of Central Park, the cemetery at Gettysburg, and the National Parks system. Even today this urban wildlife 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 focus on conservation, it also reflects the impact of Transcendentalism and the progressive spirit in American life seen in advances in science, art, and religion and in social reform movements. In The Lively 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.

By: Stephen Kendrick
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9780807066294
ISBN 10: 080706629X
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

INVOCATION Into the Garden AUTUMN Consecration Day From Crypt to Garden Finding Yourself Lost A New Manifestation An Earthly Paradise WINTER Sacred Tourists Candles in the Dark Frozen Transcendentalism The Rivals The Poet and the Abolitionist “So Young and Victorious” SPRING Going Over the Ground Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory The Time of the Singing of Birds ”My Story Ends in Freedom...” Grave Words SUMMER Greening A Natural Shift Melting Art Call Me Trimtab The Experimental Garden The Sphinx Bigelow Redux EPILOGUE A New Adam and Eve APPENDIX The Residents—Where to Find Them Acknowledgments Notes

Stephen Kendrick is senior minister at the First Church in Boston, Unitarian Universalist. He is the author or coauthor of Holy Clues- The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes, Sarah's Long Walk- The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, Douglass and Lincoln, and the novel Night Watch.

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

In The Lively Place, Stephen Kendrick revives Emerson, Fuller, Howe, and other luminaries to take us on a delightful tour of a graveyard that is one of America s most beautiful public spaces. Eve LaPlante, author of Marmee & Louisa