Join us at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, MA on Thursday 7/21!
Please contact us here or email 48states48days@gmail.com to register! Our local event host will be providing lunch and want to make sure that they have all necessary supplies on-hand!
“FOREST HILLS CEMETERY WAS FOUNDED IN 1848 by Henry A. S. Dearborn, then mayor of Roxbury. He designed this magnificent cemetery to offer the citizens of his community a place to bury and remember friends and family in a tranquil and lovely setting. At the same time, he intended to create a place which urban dwellers could visit to connect with nature, refresh the spirit, and take delight in beauty. In effect, he created Boston’s first public park; Forest Hills Cemetery preceded the Emerald Necklace by 30 years. Dearborn pioneered the picturesque, romantic style of landscape design which would later influence Frederick Law Olmsted and the evolution of American landscape.
A superb example of the 19th century rural garden cemetery movement, Forest Hills Cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It reflects changing attitudes about death and a cultural shift away from the severe style of the burial grounds of colonial New England. It offers a gentler concept of death as eternal rest, and is rooted in a romantic vision of spiritual renewal through unity with nature.”
*Info via Forest Hills Cemetery*
