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“The story of Houston can be told through histories of those buried at Glenwood Cemetery. From the ‘mother of Houston,’ as Charlotte Marie Allen is known, to Judge Roy Hofheinz, the father of the Astrodome, Glenwood houses the graves of hearty men and women who founded and shaped this great city along Buffalo Bayou. Houston’s Silent Garden is a superb history of this cemetery, one that takes the reader beyond the names of those buried there. The book introduces us to the bucolic setting that continues to be what its founders intended when they created it 137 years ago—a beautiful garden that my life-long friend Carrington Weems says seems to reach ‘up to the heavens’ on starry nights. As a native Houstonian, whose grandfather served as the cemetery’s president for a quarter of a century, I am gratified that Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale Wilson have written this wonderful book.”—James A Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State
(James A Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State)"Glenwood Cemetery has been an important part of Houston since its creation in the years after the Civil War. This ‘silent garden’ west of downtown became the burial place of many prominent Houstonians. This beautiful book by Suzanne Turner, Joanne Seale Wilson, and with photographs by Paul C. Hester tells the story of both the people who founded Glenwood and many of the people who are buried there. In so doing, it also tells an interesting, engaging part of the story of Houston.”—Joseph Pratt, Cullen Professor of History & Business, University of Houston
(Joseph Pratt, Cullen Professor of History & Business, University of Houston)"This book is about many things: Glenwood's place in the history of landscape design; the changing design of the monuments that embellish the grounds, and how evolving aesthetics relate the broader societal change; the people involved in the cemetery's creation and enlargement over time, and how newer parts of the cemetery incorporate different landscape aesthetics than the older ones; the individuals buried there; and Glenwood's place in Houston's history. [The authors] have done well in placing Glenwood within both the history of cemetery design and the social, economic, and urban history of Houston. The book is handsomely illustrated with Paul Hester's contemporary photographs as well as older maps, drawings, postcards, and portraits. The authors make clear that the history of Glenwood is an essential part of Houston's past and explain the efforts that current leaders of the cemetery are undertaking to ensure that this green oasis remains an inportant part of the city as it moves into the twenty-first century."--David Schuyler, The Journal of Southern History
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