Blanche M. G. Linden, PhD, earned her master’s in history from the University of Cincinnati, and her doctorate in the history of American civilization from Harvard University. Her doctoral dissertation eventually became Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes in Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery (1989). She was also a highly respected and enthusiastic teacher wherever she taught, including at Brandeis University, Middlebury College, the University of New Hampshire, Florida Atlantic University, and Emerson College in Boston.