The Lively Place
Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
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 cultureThe 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807066294 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 080706629X |
| Author: | Stephen Kendrick |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 140mm x 18mm |
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“Reading Stephen Kendrick’s The Lively Place is like having a séance with the great minds of New England’s past. From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Buckminster Fuller and Bernard Malamud, Harriet Jacobs and Julia Ward Howe to Mary Baker Eddy, they’re here as conversing, vibrant presences in Kendrick’s telling. Even if not buried in the nation’s oldest garden cemetery, eminences like Emerson and Thoreau pass through or, like Margaret Fuller, find representation in monuments. The Lively Place is both education and inspiration, like Mount Auburn Cemetery itself.”
—Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
“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
About The Author
Stephen Kendrick
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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