{"product_id":"the-lively-place-isbn-9780807066294","title":"The Lively Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe story of one of the Boston area’s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and “residents” have influenced American culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 from Harvard University, was also a place that reflected and instilled an imperative to preserve and protect nature in a rapidly industrializing culture—lessons that would influence the creation of Central Park, the cemetery at Gettysburg, and the National Parks system. Even today this urban wildlife habitat and nationally recognized hotspot for migratory songbirds continues to connect visitors with nature and serves as a model for sustainable landscape practices. Beyond Mount Auburn’s prescient focus on conservation, it also reflects the impact of Transcendentalism and the progressive spirit in American life seen in advances in science, art, and religion and in social reform movements. In \u003ci\u003eThe Lively Place\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Kendrick celebrates this vital piece of our nation’s history, as he tells the story of Mount Auburn’s founding, its legacy, and the many influential Americans interred there, from religious leaders to abolitionists, poets, and reformers.INVOCATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInto the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAUTUMN\u003cbr\u003eConsecration Day\u003cbr\u003eFrom Crypt to Garden\u003cbr\u003eFinding Yourself Lost\u003cbr\u003eA New Manifestation\u003cbr\u003eAn Earthly Paradise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINTER\u003cbr\u003eSacred Tourists\u003cbr\u003eCandles in the Dark\u003cbr\u003eFrozen Transcendentalism\u003cbr\u003eThe Rivals\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet and the Abolitionist\u003cbr\u003e“So Young and Victorious”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSPRING\u003cbr\u003eGoing Over the Ground\u003cbr\u003eMine Eyes Have Seen the Glory\u003cbr\u003eThe Time of the Singing of Birds\u003cbr\u003e”My Story Ends in Freedom...”\u003cbr\u003eGrave Words\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUMMER\u003cbr\u003eGreening \u003ci\u003eA Natural Shift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelting Art\u003cbr\u003eCall Me Trimtab\u003cbr\u003eThe Experimental Garden\u003cbr\u003eThe Sphinx \u003ci\u003eBigelow Redux\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New Adam and Eve\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Residents—Where to Find Them\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes“Reading Stephen Kendrick’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lively Place\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Lively Place\u003c\/i\u003e is both education and inspiration, like Mount Auburn Cemetery itself.”\u003cbr\u003e—Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eMargaret Fuller: A New American Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Lively Place\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Eve LaPlante, author of \u003ci\u003eMarmee \u0026amp; Louisa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Kendrick\u003c\/b\u003e is senior minister at the First Church in Boston, Unitarian Universalist. He is the author or coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHoly Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDouglass and Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302587388133,"sku":"NP9780807066294","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807066294.jpg?v=1767740284","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-lively-place-isbn-9780807066294","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}