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Article: Dead poets society - Mount Auburn Cemetery tour links writers' graves with their words.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- October 22, 2000
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Ever since 1831, when Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge was founded as America's first garden cemetery, it has been a "landscape designed to inspire the living," said Janet Heywood, director of interpretive services.
"Many intellectuals and people whose lives were lived in the public eye are laid to rest here," Heywood said.
Under Heywood's leadership, "multilayered programs that help visitors make links to the past" are regularly offered at the 174-acre cemetery. A first-time walking tour, "The Poetics of Trees," will be offered Saturday by Candace Currie, the cemetery's coordinator of planning and mapping.
During the walk, Currie will guide ...