Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Lives of the Past Informing the Future | Page 8

A Playwright Chooses
Some Characters
By Patrick Gabridge
Artist-in-Residence
A
s artist-in-residence at Mount Auburn over the past year and a
half, I’ve researched the stories behind the many interesting people
buried here. Mount Auburn offers a fascinating spiderweb of people
who were highly involved in shaping Boston (and America). Countless hours of
research have gone into creating the plays that we’re producing in September,
but it’s impossible to put all of it into the scripts, so I wanted to share a bit
more about some of my favorite people.
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