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A visit to “Author’s Ridge” at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on WORLDS GREATEST CEMETERIES – Oct. 19 at 3:30 pm


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World’s Greatest Cemeteries

“Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Ma”

Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pm

medium shot of sleepy hollow cemetery“World’s Greatest Cemeteries” Season 2 continues this exciting Public Television/PBS Passport series about the most beautiful burial grounds on earth, and diverse historical figures interred in them.  In each episode, Host/Executive Producer Roberto Mighty takes us to one of these iconic outdoor museums, where we meet inspiring people from the past who helped make our world what it is today. The shows feature costumed historical reenactors, breathtaking cinematography, and upbeat interviews with historians, tour guides, landscape architects, horticulturalists and other experts. Perfect for lovers of travel, history, gardens and biography.

Today, join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at this must-see for book lovers and history buffs! Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery boasts “Author’s Ridge” — with Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and more! Also, a side trip to Walden Pond, historical reenactments, and a surprise for “I Love Lucy” fans. This gem is on the US National Register of Historic Places.