The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Landscape Design: Rural United States
Bender, T. 1974
‘The “rural” cemetery movement: urban travail and the appeal of nature’, New England Quarterly, 196-211.
French, S. 1975
‘The cemetery as cultural institution: the establishment of Mount Auburn and the “rural cemetery movement’, American Quarterly, 26:1, 37-59.
Morgan, K.N. 1984
‘The emergence of the American landscape professional: John Notman an the design of rural cemeteries’, Journal of Garden History, 4:3, 269-289.
Rotundo, B. 1984
‘Mount Auburn: a fortunate co-incidence and an ideal solution’, Journal of Garden History, 4:3 255-67.
Sachs, A. 2013
Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition, New Haven, NH: Yale University Press.
Schyler, D. 1984
‘The evolution of the Anglo-American rural cemetery: landscape architecture as social and cultural history’, Journal of Garden History, 4:3, 291-304.
