Katken attended the annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery last night.

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Snapping turtle with jaws of steel refuses to move when photographer approaches. No word if it then snapped a broomstick in two with its maw.

Matthew jogs in Forest Hills Cemetery. Running with the Dead chronicles his runs through this "genteel necropolis of rolling hills, puddingstone outcrops, and the watchful trees."

Katken watched a heron take flight at Forest Hills Cemetery.

Some nice photos from Forest Hills Cemetery, including one of a sunning turtle.

Some nice photos from Jamaica Pond.

Kathryn photographs a memorial woman at Forest Hills Cemetery.

LastRemnants watches geese take flight at Forest Hills Cemetery.

Mike Ball reports somebody is stealing sculptures and urns from Forest Hills Cemtery:

... You'd suppose trying to fence two very distinctive and well-known public sculptures will end up tripping up the thieves. I hope so and I bet the cemetery (and likely its insurance company) are working that angle too ...

The Globe reports officials fear the sculptures will simply be sold for scrap.

Liskdc photographs a cherub at Forest Hills Cemetery.

You just have to know how to listen and do a bit of research. Mike Ball profiles a couple of inventors buried there, including Richard Lufkin, inventor of the first vamp folding machine, which was revolutionary for its time.