Mark Harris at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Saturday, February 13, 1:30 PM
Green cemeteries that take an eco-friendly approach to burials and memorialization are springing up in North America, England, and Europe. Permitting only chemical-free burials in biodegradable coffins, the new green graveyards allow the speedy decomposition of the body and its return to the natural cycle of life. At the same time, green cemeteries work to preserve land from development and, in the best of schemes, restore it to ecological health. Using archival images of early American cemeteries and recent photographs of green cemeteries here and abroad, Harris examines the history of natural burial, tracing its roots in the rural cemetery movement to current strategies for land preservation.
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