Down East Books
Pages: 344
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-60893-907-7 • Hardback • August 2019 • $29.95 • (£22.99)
978-1-60893-908-4 • eBook • August 2019 • $28.50 • (£21.99)
Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT),
Travel / United States / Northeast / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Historian Trudy Irene Scee holds a master of arts in history from the University of Montana and a PhD in history from the University of Maine. Dr. Scee has taught history at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, at Husson University in Bangor, and has worked extensively for the University of Maine system. Her books on Maine history include City on the Penobscot and Tragedy in the North Woods. She lives in Brewer, Maine.
Preface
Introduction
1. The Forerunner—The New Haven Burial Grounds or Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut
2. America’s First Recognized Garden Cemetery—Mount Auburn Cemetery, Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts
3. America’s Second Garden Cemetery—Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine
4. Valley Cemetery and Her Daughter Cemetery, Pine Grove, Manchester, New Hampshire
5. Between the Walls—Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Massachusetts
6. The Northeast’s Largest Garden Cemetery—Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York
7. The Garden of Ethereal Wings—Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
8. The Forgotten Gem of the Garden Cemeteries—Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, New York
9. The Mystical Garden—Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, Connecticut
10. Cemetery on a Hill—Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, Vermont, and Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont
11. By the Valley of the Kings—Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine
12. A Plan for Everything—Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut
13. The End of the Era—The Influence of Garden Cemeteries; South Street Cemetery, New Hampshire, Forest Grove Cemetery, New Hampshire, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Maine, and Hope Cemetery, Barre, Vermont