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  Jamaica Plain Historical Society - 'Locales' Editor - Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery held a public program in October that successfully laid to rest (so to speak) the participants' fears and questions about crematories and cremation, and shed light on the little-explored procedure.
A talk on cremation and the history of cremation at Forest Hills was given by Rachel Sideman, a former intern at the cemetery who wrote on the subject for her Simmons College master's thesis.
In the cemetery's Walk Hill/Canterbury section may be found the glass-enclosed white marble statue titled "Boy in the Boat" and marked LL on the cemetery's map of curiosities.
www.jphs.org /locales/2005/4/14/forest-hills-cemetery.html   (1041 words)

  
 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles, California, on the south edge of the San Fernando Valley by Burbank (and on the north side of the Santa Monica Mountains from Hollywood).
The Forest Lawn Memorial Parks are recognized and serve as a cultural institution in the Los Angeles regional area.
Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills is a park dedicated to the preservation of American history, and hosts high-profile events such as an annual Veteran's Day ceremony attended by dignitaries and V.I.P.s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forest_Lawn,_Hollywood_Hills_Cemetery   (575 words)

  
 wbur.org Arts - Op-Eds - The Dead Club
The trustees at Jamaica Plain's Forest Hills Cemetery and the staff of the Forest Hills Educational Trust are trying to counteract current prejudices; the goal is to reclaim the cemetery's former status as a park via an ambitious series of activities, tours, art works, and performances open to the general public throughout the year.
The cemetery was the brainchild of Henry Dearborn, the mayor of Roxbury from 1847-51.
While the primary mission of the Forest Hills Cemetery is to provide burial space and memorial services for its patrons and their families, the cemetery's trustees are already looking ahead to a time when all the available plots are spoken for.
www.wbur.org /arts/2005/49475_20050713.asp   (1044 words)

  
 Forest Hills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forest Hills School District; Sidman, PA Forest Hills, Massachusetts (part of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston), served by Forest Hills Station on the MBTA orange line.
The Forest Hills (MBTA station) is the southern terminus of the MBTA Orange Line
Forest Hills (Queens) a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forest_Hills   (171 words)

  
 5/18/2005 - Among Those At Rest, A Tour Through Forest Hills Cemetery - Happenings - Chattanoogan.com
A visit to Forest Hills Cemetery is an opportunity to enjoy the tranquility of a beautifully landscaped and carefully tended Victorian-era cemetery.
Some actions of those buried at Forest Hills are well known, like, General John Wilder who led a Union Brigade at the battle of Chickamauga and later served as Mayor of Chattanooga or C.E. James one of the city’s earliest developers.
Forest Hills is interested in the family histories of those interred at the cemetery and you can contact them by email at foresthillscemetery@comcast.net or by fax at (423) 821-8740.
www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_67068.asp   (895 words)

  
 Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Forest Hills Cemetery is a not-for-profit trusteed association.
The cemetery is open for the public from 8 am until 6 pm 365 days a year.
Forest Hills Cemetery is on the left at the top of the hill.
foresthillscemetery.net /contact.html   (242 words)

  
 Gravesites of Devin's Troopers in Forest Hills Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Gravesites of Devin's Troopers in Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery in the Western New York borough of Fredonia, Town of Pomfret, contains many Civil War graves, including the family plot of Alonzo Cushing, a battery commander killed at Gettysburg at the height of Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863 (Alonzo is interred at West Point).
Forest Hills adjoins the old, original cemetery called the Pioneer Cemetery.
www.bufordsboys.com /ForestHillsGraves.htm   (449 words)

  
 Magazine Antiques: The art of Forest Hills cemetery - Roxbury, Massachusetts
Forest Hills began with what was then a radical plan for burial and commemoration that linked nature, landscape design, and horticulture with art and architecture.
The movement reached the Midwest in 1845 with the founding of the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati and the South in 1847 with the inauguration of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
Forest Hills is surrounded by private cemeteries, Franklin Park, and the nearby Arnold Arboretum.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_5_154/ai_53272526   (1453 words)

  
 Panorama Magazine : The Official Guide to Boston and Boston Guide - What Lies Beneath
Boston’s cemeteries are not merely shelters for supposed ghosts and ghouls, however; they are also reminders of the city’s rich, historic past.
Boston’s second oldest cemetery was established in 1660 and is one of the 16 stops along the Freedom Trail.
Forest Hills is located near the Forest Hills stop at the end of the MBTA’s Orange Line.
www.panoramamagazine.com /panoramamagazine/articles/what_lies_beneath.asp   (745 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Forest Hills Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried.
Mount Auburn Cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery Hunnewell family obelisk Bigelow Chapel Civil War memorial Founded in 1831 as Americas first garden cemetery, Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain.
The Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Forest-Hills-Cemetery   (530 words)

  
 Art |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Forest Hills Cemetery is a hilly, 275-acre expanse of shady trees and lawns and paths that wind past graves and memorials ornamented with monuments of every conceivable sort, including weeping marble women, towering stone obelisks, hulking granite lions, and a precious marble girl in a glass gazebo.
Designed in 1848 as a welcoming place to have a big picnic and visit one’s Victorian dead while leaving behind the heat and grime of the busy city, it is still a fantastic place to escape to.
Last year, the Forest Hills Educational Trust invited artists’ proposals for site-specific work responding to the trees in this unusual setting.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/art/documents/02346183.htm   (1337 words)

  
 Exploit Boston : Category: Forest Hills Cemetary
The trust is located at the Forest Hills Cemetary in Jamaica Plain and consistently has some of the most diverse cultural programming around Boston.
Forest Hills Cemetary, 95 Forest Hills Ave., Jamaica Plain
Forest Hills Cemetary in Jamaica Plain has some of the most unique and interesting events.
www.exploitboston.com /archives/venues/forest_hills_cemetary/index.php   (347 words)

  
 Artist Profiles
To this end Forest Hills Educational Trust is in the forefront of innovation.
This tradition was firmly established by the cemetery’s founder Henry A.S. Dearborn, then Mayor of Roxbury and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Forest Hills Cemetery also offer many cultural opportunities in the form of educational tours and lectures, social events such as an Annual Dog Walk in August and an Annual Lantern Festival in July that includes performances and a moving Buddhist ritual of remembrance.
www.artfulgift.com /profiles.htm   (3176 words)

  
 Forest Hills Cemetery party - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Calendar - A&E
FOREST HILLS CEMETERY: 95 Forest Hills Ave., Jamaica Plain.
Forest Hills Cemetery just landed a much sought-after spot on the National Register of Historic Places, and to celebrate they want you to spend Saturday night frolicking in their boneyard.
It's also one of the coolest cemeteries on the planet, considering that big names such as Frederic Chopin, Edith Piaf, and Doors lead singer Jim Morrison are all buried there.
boston.com /ae/events/articles/2005/06/23/forest_hills_cemetery_party   (260 words)

  
 I Spy My Hometown - Brunswick, NY - Forest Park Cemetery
Forest Park Cemetery was designed by Garnet Douglass Baltimore, the first Afro-American to graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1881).
The cemetery was reincorporated as the Forest Hills Cemetery in 1918, but this corporation went bankrupt in the 1930s.
By the late 1960s, the cemetery had established a reputation as one of the "most haunted" cemeteries in the nation.
www.uhls.org /ISpy/brun/brun-forest.html   (311 words)

  
 Art | Grave matters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1848, Henry Dearborn, mayor of Roxbury and later first president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, began a landscaping project whose aim was as much to bury the dead as it was to delight the living.
Five years ago, the Forest Hills Trust began building on the cemetery’s estimable history as a sculpture garden.
Forest Hills is open every day from 7:30 a.m.
www.portlandphoenix.com /art/tripping/documents/03090312.asp   (1335 words)

  
 Abingdon Virginian
Beyond the Forest: An aircraft is shown on final approach to Runway 24 of Virginia Highlands airport (at top), descending over Forest Hills Cemetery.
The 40-foot pin oak tree, at left, is one of the cemetery's oldest trees the airport plans to remove, in order to clear airspace for the lowering of its east runway approach corridor.
Each the garden's trees, planted during the construction of the cemetery in 1962, are the oldest trees standing in the entire cemetery.
abvanews.com /fp/fp6105.html   (2434 words)

  
 Forest Hills - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Forest Hills, Massachusetts (part of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston), served by Forest Hills Station on the MBTA orange line.
Forest Hills is also a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York city
Forest Hills is also a cemetery in Brunswick, New York.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Forest_Hills   (224 words)

  
 Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills: Stars' Graves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Forest Lawn memorial parks are renowned for the many movie stars buried there, so I suppose it's appropriate that this Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills overlooks Disney Studios, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros.
Located near Griffith Park, this Forest Lawn is only ten minutes west of the larger Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, and it shares much in common with its larger sibling.
The cemetery is located about a mile north of the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown.
www.seeing-stars.com /Buried2/ForestLawnHollywood1.shtml   (1934 words)

  
 Brunswick History
The Forest Park Cemetery was organized by a group of Troy businessmen in 1897 who purchased about 200 acres of land from the John Sherry Estate and hired Garnet D. Baltimore, the first African-American to graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, to design the cemetery.
Oversight of the cemetery was thereafter largely accomplished through the voluntary efforts of a man named William Christen.
In 1990 the Town of Brunswick assumed responsibility for the cemetery in accordance with the municipal laws of the state.
www.townofbrunswick.org /history/historyViewIndividual.asp?ID=24   (171 words)

  
 Forest Hills Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Forest Hills Cemetery (1848) in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (formerly in the city of Roxbury, now in the city of Boston) is an early suburban garden cemetery inspired by the Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Joseph Warren, American Patriot leader killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill
This Massachusetts state location article is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forest_Hills_Cemetery   (97 words)

  
 About Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery is one of the finest examples of the rural cemetery garden in the United States.
Today, Forest Hills is still an active burial ground; it is also a historic site, an open-air museum, and a 275-acre greenspace and arboretum.
Forest Hills is open every day from dawn to dusk.
www.foresthillscemetery.com /about.html   (376 words)

  
 Boston Attractions and Activities - Forest Hills Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Forest Hills is one of America's most lovely garden cemeteries and a unique Boston cultural resource and historic site.
It was founded in 1848 by Henry Dearborn, then mayor of Roxbury, to offer the citizens of his community a place to bury and remember friends and family in a beautiful and consoling natural setting.
Finally, Forest Hills is a deeply spiritual landscape and remains a special place for contemplation and renewal.
www.bostonkids.net /boston_attractions/forest_hills_cemetery.htm   (291 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Forest Hills Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri There is a Forest Hills Cemetery in Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO where my ggreat grand mother is buried: Anna Hannah (Whalen)McClure died Oct 18, 1925.
He was a traveling preacher and her son, my granduncle Audrey "red" McClure, is buried in a nearby cemetery, Floral Hills, with his last wife Cecile N.(WEST)McClure Audrey was born 3-3-1901 in Dandgrige,TN and died in Jackson Co. MO on Jan 1981.
My Grandmother, Ethel Virginia Bryan is burried in the Forrest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri She was born Ethel Virginia Meadows 22 Oct 1889 and died 17 Sep 1922 her husband, Joseph Burr Bryan is buried in Fountain Grove Cemetery, Coffee County, Tennessee.
ftp.rootsweb.com /pub/usgenweb/mo/jackson/cemeteries/foresth.txt   (246 words)

  
 About Forest Hills
Forest Hills is one of America's most lovely rural garden cemeteries.
Garden of Memories, a comprehensive guidebook to Forest Hills by photographer and historian Susan Wilson, offers a lively account of the art and history of the cemetery.
Forest Hills is an active cemetery serving the community with Boston's most beautiful place for burial and memorialization.
www.foresthillstrust.org /about.html   (247 words)

  
 WBUR - Forest Hills Cemetery tour
The Victorians crowded into Forest Hills Cemetery on weekends for picnics and strolling among the gravestones.
The cemetery was so popular that at one point, you could only get in on Sundays if you had a ticket, and you could only get a ticket if you had a family member buried there.
These days cemeteries are no longer considered a picnic ground, but Forest Hills is still a quiet place in the city where people go to enjoy nature, art, and reflect on life and death.
wbur.org /special/foresthills   (107 words)

  
 Mass. News: More choosing cremation as cemeteries become more crowded
The trend is extending the lives of some state cemeteries which had been running out of room.
Forest Hills does 1,200 cremations annually, but only about 5 percent of those result in urns being buried at the cemetery.
Forest Hills supervisor Erling Hanson said he worries when people want their loved one cremated so they can spread the remains in a sentimental place.
www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/4_22_sb2.htm   (380 words)

  
 Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Located in the historic St. Elmo neighborhood nestled at the foot of Lookout Mountain, FHC is the resting place of many important people and a landmark of great beauty and history to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Forest Hills Cemetery is run by a non-profit association of volunteers.
In order to maintain the beauty of Forest Hills, we need both financial and volunteer support from you.
foresthillscemetery.net   (108 words)

  
 FuneralWire : Your Leading Source For Deathcare Industry News - Famous folks at the Forest Hills Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The cemetery, which began in 1848, actually has corpses from before 1848 because some people, such as Francis Lowell, the founder of Lowell, who was buried a long time before 1848, have been moved to the cemetery to be with loved ones or for other reasons.
The cemetery also needs to attend to the plots, which are owned by relatives of the buried.
But no matter what reason you come to visit the Forest Hills Cemetery, if it's to say hello to an old friend, picnic, take a jog through the paths or search for famous people, just remember you can thank the cemetery's staff, because the place wouldn't look as good as it does without them.
www.funeralwire.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16793   (1162 words)

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