Forest Hills Cemetery
Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
(Author)
Description
Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A. S. Dearborn, Forest Hills Cemetery celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2008 as Boston's premier arboretum cemetery. Since the mid-19th century, its 250 magnificent acres have been the resting place of people of all walks of life, ethnicities, religions, and races. Among these are poets Anne Sexton and E. E. Cummings, playwright Eugene O'Neill, and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Forest Hills's landscape is a museum of sculpture, art, and monuments that chronicles the Victorian age to the present. The first crematorium in New England was here, and prominent Bostonian suffragette Lucy Stone was the first person to be cremated at Forest Hills in 1893. An active cemetery and an all-embracing place, Forest Hills offers a bucolic and picturesque setting for the "gathering of generations" and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Product Details
Price
$24.99
$23.24
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Publish Date
October 26, 2009
Pages
128
Dimensions
6.6 X 9.36 X 0.3 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780738557885
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Noted author of over thirty books in Arcadia's Images of America series, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco works with photographer James Z. Kyprianos to offer a fascinating juxtaposition of old and new photographs of the great city. Sammarco and Kyprianos ensure fascinating text and detailed photographs of the architectural and historical changes that have taken place in downtown Boston since the advent of photography.