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Stephen Kendrick

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 Boston area's most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and residents have influenced American cultureWhen 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 an… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8070-6629-4
  • EAN: 9780807066294
  • Produktnummer: 19783870
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.

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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.

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