The peaceful Grover’s Corners cemetery in Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Our Town,” is seen as a stark reminder of the inevitability of death and the importance of appreciating the simple joys of life.
“We’re all glad they’re in a beautiful place and we’re coming up here ourselves when our fit’s over,” the Stage Manager of the play says at the start of Act III.
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