
Four Sharon, Conn., nonprofits are teaming up to give tours of the historic Sharon burial ground in the center of town, photo above. At stops along the way, actors in character will share poems from Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology” — which is set in a graveyard. Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
What’s Hidden Below, in Cemetery Tour with ‘Spoon River’ Readings
It isn’t often that a book of poetry becomes a publishing sensation, but that’s what happened with Edgar Lee Masters and his “Spoon River Anthology” when it came out in 1915.