For solitude, try history-infused walk in woods at pre-Civil War rural cemetery
Atop an oak-shaded hill at Mount Hope Cemetery, an epitaph chiselled in Latin on Col. Nathaniel Rochester's headstone whispers on the wind: "If you seek his monument, look around you."
Mount Hope, America's oldest municipal park-garden graveyard, is a refuge not only for the departed. Curious souls still tramp through the 78-hectare arboretum by the tens of thousands each year, among them picnickers, bird watchers, joggers and history buffs.
In the Romantic era of Wordsworth and Beethoven, the Victorian vogue of mourning embraced a love of nature and artistry. So-called "rural cemeteries" a few kilometres out of town were a sublime departure from the austere colonial churchyards with morbid funerary where the dead typically ended up....
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Mount Hope, America's oldest municipal park-garden graveyard, is a refuge not only for the departed. Curious souls still tramp through the 78-hectare arboretum by the tens of thousands each year, among them picnickers, bird watchers, joggers and history buffs.
In the Romantic era of Wordsworth and Beethoven, the Victorian vogue of mourning embraced a love of nature and artistry. So-called "rural cemeteries" a few kilometres out of town were a sublime departure from the austere colonial churchyards with morbid funerary where the dead typically ended up....