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

from drebbles

In "The Lively Place", author Stephen Kendrick not only looks at the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery but the changes made there throughout the years. He takes a look at some of the people that have worked there in the past as well as those that work there now. He also talks about some of the pe...

from RaucousRain

I moved to Massachusetts about a year ago. As at other times when I've moved about, I've enjoyed absorbing as much as can about the area where I live. A few months back, I checked TripAdvisor for some interesting places & things to do in nearby towns. I was startled to discover that that Mt. Aubu...

from NewsieQ

I wish I would have enjoyed this book more. I'm a fan of cemeteries and history, so I thought it was a natural. But, in the non-fiction realm, I like narrative non-fiction: I like a story. The Lively Place was not so much a story as a meandering meditation with philosophy, history, theology, etc....

from DarthDeverell

In The Lively Place, Stephen Kendrick examines Mount Auburn cemetery in Massachusetts as microhistory, exploring changing American mores regarding death, thinkers and philosophers who either focused their unique lens on the cemetery or ended their days there, literary and landscape artists who ch...

from jetangen4571

Let me start by saying that this is not a quick read. Neither is it a boring one. It is a deposition on the growth of a movement in landscape design for cemeteries, parks, and other public green spaces, while simultaneously delving into the changes through time of tombstones and mausoleums. And t...