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Forest Hills
Jamaica Plain
OrangeCommuter Rail
Southern terminus of the Orange Line. Gateway to the Arboretum and the wild, beautiful Forest Hills Cemetery, where E.E. Cummings and Anne Sexton are buried among Daniel Chester French sculptures.
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What to do
- •Wander the Arboretum (281 acres, free)
- •Find E.E. Cummings' grave at Forest Hills
- •Pint at the Behan
- •Lilac Sunday at the Arboretum (May)
Walking trails
Up Bussey Hill for the city's best free skyline view, back via the conifers.
Public sculpture park doubling as a 19th-century rural cemetery.
Events
- •Lilac Sunday at the Arb (Mother's Day weekend)
- •Forest Hills Cemetery Lantern Festival (July)
Fun facts
- ✦The Arnold Arboretum is owned by Harvard but free + open dawn–dusk year-round.
- ✦Forest Hills Cemetery was modeled on Mount Auburn — same 'rural cemetery' design.
- ✦E.E. Cummings, Anne Sexton, William Lloyd Garrison are all buried at Forest Hills.
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