Laurel Hill, a hidden cemetery, gets new look

The view from Robert T. Conrad's final resting spot is as glorious as any in Philadelphia.

From a rocky outcropping high above Kelly Drive, a visitor to the grave of the 19th-century mayor, poet, and playwright can look out on a two-mile arc of the Schuylkill as it winds from the northwest before rolling slowly to the Delaware. Scullers score the surface as waterbirds wheel overhead.

It is a panorama that once drew thousands to Laurel Hill Cemetery, where Conrad was buried in 1858, for weekend picnics and retreats among the monuments to Philadelphia's storied dead.

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