Obscura Day in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

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Walking Tour of Forest Hills Cemetery

Walking Tour of Forest Hills Cemetery

Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM (ET)

Jamaica Plain, MA


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Join writer and independent scholar Matthew Battles for a tour of the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

Like a locket at the end of the Emerald Necklace, Forest Hills Cemetery encloses memories that both charm and haunt New England's metropolis. The final resting place of Anne Sexton, e.e. cummings, and Eugene O'Neill, the cemetery boasts graves of Revolutionary figures and leaders of the abolition movement as well.

A stroll through its arborescent landscape reveals puddingstone outcrops and gravestones of fossil wood, haunting sculptures, and crypts evoking the Gothic, the Gaelic, and the Art Deco. Part of a vast necropolis where a diverse modern city lays its dead to rest, strange and lovely Forest Hills tells Boston's story in stone and memories.

DETAILS AND DIRECTIONS

Please meet at 2:30 PM, at the front entrance to the cemetery on Morton Street.

Please wear appropriate clothing for the outdoors and sturdy walking shoes.

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Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places taking place around the world on March 20, 2010. It is sponsored by Atlas Obscura, a guide to the world's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. To find out more about the Atlas and Obscura Day, or to find out how you can host an event in your city, visit ObscuraDay.com, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

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Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM (ET)

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Forest Hills Cemetery
95 Forest Hills Avenue
(meet at the Morton St entrance)
Jamaica Plain MA




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