Literary Boston - walking tour
When:
Sunday, Sep 29, 2019 2:00p -
3:30p
Sunday, Sep 29, 2019 2:00p -
3:30p
Where:
Forest Hills Cemetery - Visitor's Circle
95 Forest Hills Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Admission:
$10.00
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/literary-boston-walking-tour-tickets-73164604301
Join Anthony Sammarco for a tour visiting the gravesites of some of the prominent literary figures memorialized at Forest Hills. Some are well-known: poet e.e. cummings, playwright Eugene O'Neill, historical author William Hyslop Sumner and members of the dynasty behind The Boston Globe: Charles H. Taylor and William O. Taylor. But there will be some surprises as well, such as Susanna Haswell Rowson, whose lurid yet pious novel Charlotte Temple was America's first best seller, and Annie Haven Thwing, who compiled a history of Boston on 125,000 index cards and was the author of the classic Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston. Did you know that Lewis Edson Waterman, the inventor of the fountain pen is buried at Forest Hills?
