Susie King Taylor was an utterly remarkable woman, the first African American nurse during the Civil War who went on to be the only Black female to publish a memoir of her wartime experience. And that...
The Boston Seamen’s Port and Aid Society’s lot on Ocean Avenue in Mount Hope Cemetery is a tall, black granite monument crowned with an urn, it honors Rev. Edward T. Taylor. Taylor was arguably the...
At the corner of Walnut Avenue and Crescent Avenue in Mount Hope Cemetery sits a granite sarcophagus-shaped monument with the epitaph: “The best part of the record of every man’s life is what he has...
April 5, 2022, is the Ching Ming Festival (known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English), a day when people of Chinese descent visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites.
March is Women’s History Month and so it is an ideal time to feature Sarah and Angelina Grimké, who really should be much better known than they are. These sisters were both pioneering abolitionists...
The landscape of Mount Hope Cemetery is dominated by the State Rock of Massachusetts, Roxbury Puddingstone. Learn more about this wonderful natural element.
