While researching this month's "Resting Place" feature on Lake View Cemetery, associate editor Jason Brill and I witnessed beautiful architecture, manicured horticulture and the surfeit of history. But what gripped us the most was the gargantuan, medieval-looking Garfield Memorial key in the console of Lake View director of community outreach Mary Krohmer's car. The roughly 2-pound bronze key is locked up every night, along with 80 other mausoleum keys, in the cemetery's archival vault. "We don't go in [the mausoleums] all the time," says Lake View president Katharine Goss. "Once or twice a year we go in and make sure everything is clean and there's no cobwebs."
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