The Pleasure Grounds of Death

May 21, 2026 - Positive Themes of Death and Dying: Joy M Giguere - "The Pleasure Grounds of Death"

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This lecture will take place in the Belmont Chapel at Island Cemetery. May 21, 2026

Rural cemeteries—named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location—were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation’s first such burial ground to combine the functions of the public park and the cemetery, becoming a popular place to picnic and go for strolls even for people who didn’t have graves to visit. It sparked a nationwide movement in which communities sought to establish their own cities of the dead.

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