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Sustainability Fair
Mount Auburn Greenhouse
94 Grove St. Watertown
October 5th 1:30PM - 3PM
Interested in composting, or how to prepare your garden for the winter? Drop by and meet our staff. Learn about the equipment we use and how we implement our sustainable landscape maintenance plan.
Check out the greenhouse and chat with staff about our Citizen Science program, beekeeping, and much more!
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Puerto Rico has been devastated by two recent hurricanes, and families of many Cemetery employees have been hit hard.
Mount Auburn will donate $5,000 to:
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Fall is a terrific time to visit Mount Auburn. Our diverse collection of over 5,000 trees attract many "leaf peepers" this time of year. P
lants
and wildlife combined with funerary art and architecture, make for an unforgettable experience.
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Rest House at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Elizabeth Antonizick, 1959
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Join us for a Community Digitization Day where the public can bring in a range of paper-based materials, such as photographs and letters, that help to tell the story of their community, Mount Auburn Cemetery, and the nearly 100,000 people buried and commemorated there.
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) will hold a series of informational sessions about preserving and digitizing family collections, and give participants...
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Mount Auburn Receives Grant for Plant Collections
The Friends of Mount Auburn is delighted to announce that we have received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) in support of a new plant collections map application that will help guide visitors onsite or online.
The grant will allow staff to
merge our existing plant collections database with ESRI GIS (geographic information system) technology, add more plant information to our website, and create a mobile data application.
Learn more...
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Celebrating the Conservation of Martin Milmore's Coppenhagen Monument
We are delighted to announce the completed conservation of the Coppenhagen Monument (1874) on Sycamore Avenue. The monument represents the work of Martin Milmore (1844-1883), one of Boston's leading 19th-century sculptors.
In 1871, Mehitable Coppenhagen, married to German-born Arnold Coppenhagen, commissioned Milmore to create a memorial for her daughter, Maria Frances Coppenhagen, who died at age thirty.
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Fall is one of the most glorious times to experience Mount Auburn Cemetery. From the changing leaves that create a canopy of vibrant foliage on our many trees to the sight of majestic hawks swooping through the crisp air, the uplifting and healing powers of our beautiful landscape are at their finest, and we hope you have time to witness them for yourself.
It may be easy to forget, however, that an incredible amount of work goes into keeping the Cemetery this beautiful. S
upporters like you are essential. Please join us in keeping Mount Auburn beautiful by making a gift to our Annual Fund!
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Photo by Jeremiah Trimble
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Every year, White-throated Sparrows return in the fall and often stay at Mount Auburn into late November. This fall you might catch one
kicking with both feet to
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Horticulture Highlight:
Korean Mountainash, Sorbus alnifolia
Korean Mountainash,
Sorbus alnifolia
is a tree to be praised during every season, but its autumn display must take first place during comparisons of its own seasonal attractiveness.
In a good year, their vivid colors
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Eternally Green:
STEAM Beans and Ecological Education
As part of our educational partnership with Lesley University, Mount Auburn has engaged a group of scientists to conduct biodiversity surveys and to use the findings to create lessons for young people. One of the participating youth groups is Cambridge-based
STEAM Beans -
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Bed of Poppies by Maria Oakey Dewing, 1909. Oil on canvas. Addison Gallery of American Art. |
Person of the Month:
Maria Oakey Dewing (1845 - 1927)
American Painter Maria Richards Oakey Dewing's is known to this day for her paintings of flowers. The remarkable lighting in her work is likely a result of painting outdoors, a technique she may have learned from her mentor, the noted stained glass designer John La Farge. More
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
September 21, 2017 - March 5 2018
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NPS Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters have planned a year of exciting programming highlighting
Frances Appleton Longfellow!
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by Clare Walker Leslie
Belmont Habitat Education Center & Wildlife Sanctuary
10 Juniper Road,
Belmont, MA 02478
On display October 2-31, 2017
A unique blend of modern rock, folk, and Buddhist-oriented chanting.
Saturday 10/14, 7pm,
Peace Event at Friends Meeting House
5 Longfellow Park near Harvard Square
Vocal jazz/guitar duo Kathryn Howell and Roberto Mighty deliver standards from the Great American Songbook and funky takes on classic rock hits
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Presentation by
Belmont Animal Control Officer John Maguranis,
Thursday, October 26th at 6:30PM
Belmont Media Center
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