About Forest Hills Cemetery Forest Hills is one of America's most lovely rural garden cemeteries. It is also a unique Boston cultural resource and historic site. Its 250 acres offer the public a magnificent arboretum, open air museum, and tranquil sanctuary just minutes away from downtown Boston. The cemetery grounds are open every day from 7:30 am until dusk, and the public is welcome to visit. The Trust sponsors a variety of events which explore the history, art, and spiritual qualities of this magnificent and much loved landscape. Walking tours, exhibitions, special events, concerts and poetry readings are listed in the Calendar of Events; you can also sign up on the calendar page for e-mail updates and reminders. Forest Hills is an active cemetery serving the community with Boston's most beautiful place for burial and memorialization. Information about these services is available at www.foresthillscemetery.com or by calling the main office at 617.524.0128. We ask that visitors keep in mind that this place is sacred to many families. While strolling, picnics, bicycling and quiet recreational activities are permitted, please respect the serenity that is so essential to this contemplative environment. Additional Resources 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. It contains six walking tours which introduce visitors to the stories of some of the most prominent people buried here. Al Maze, the Trust's volunteer Historian-in-Residence, has started creating a section on this website called "Stories Behind the Stones" which contains information about some of the notable people he has been researching over the last 10 years. Elise Ciregna, the Trust's Curator of Historic Collections, developed a "Scholars' Tour" for this website, a virtual tour of some of the important sculpture here at Forest Hills. Anthony Sammarco, a Trustee of the Trust and the author of more than 50 books on Boston history, is currently working on a book about Forest Hills which will be published by Arcadia Press in 2008.

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