Mount Auburn Cemetery

This guide to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston starts at Consecration Dell, the steep wooded hollow where over two thousand people gathered in 1831 to dedicate America's first rural cemetery. It follows what happened to the dell's frogs and toads over the next century of tidy Victorian landscaping, and introduces biologist Joe Martinez and conservation official Patrick Fairbairn, who in 2012 set out to do something about the silent pool. Listen for the pool itself as you approach the dell in the evening.