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1. Common Shade: Cultivating a Place for Death
Aaron Sachs
Description: Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
The neighborhood was well calculated to foster the reveries of a mind like mine. . . . I would throw myself, during the panting heats of a summer noon, under the shade of some wide-spreading tree, and muse and dream away the hours, in a state of mental intoxication. . . . There is a repose in our mighty forests, that gives full scope to the...
Author
Aaron Sachs
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2013 by Aaron Sachs
Related print edition pages: pp.19-61
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23871
Chapter subject tags:Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Mass.)Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878Landscape designHorticulture--United States--History--19th centuryIndians of North America--Funeral customs and ritesCemeteries--United States--History--19th century

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