Despite my having lived in Lebanon NH for the past 20 years, Glenwood Cemetery remained a mystery to me. Earlier this week, a Valley News article about its new fountain, and my desire to escape an empty morning, took me there for the first time. According to time-worn local history, the good citizens of Lebanon fussed a bit and changed their collective mind about where to locate a cemetery. After a wrong choice or two, “ . . . the committee purchased of J. C. Sturtevant the tract now known as Glenwood Cemetery.” Thus ended the “long difference of opinion . . . though not to the satisfaction of everybody.” [But of course!] There was, however, a gentle happy ending to the story, or so the writers of Lebanon’s history have maintained:
Glenwood Cemetery: A Fountain Returns
Glenwood Cemetery: A Fountain Returns
Glenwood Cemetery: A Fountain Returns
Despite my having lived in Lebanon NH for the past 20 years, Glenwood Cemetery remained a mystery to me. Earlier this week, a Valley News article about its new fountain, and my desire to escape an empty morning, took me there for the first time. According to time-worn local history, the good citizens of Lebanon fussed a bit and changed their collective mind about where to locate a cemetery. After a wrong choice or two, “ . . . the committee purchased of J. C. Sturtevant the tract now known as Glenwood Cemetery.” Thus ended the “long difference of opinion . . . though not to the satisfaction of everybody.” [But of course!] There was, however, a gentle happy ending to the story, or so the writers of Lebanon’s history have maintained: