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In Harmony with Nature  Our Flower Gardens & Greenhouse
Sunday, August 21 at 1PM

Join us to explore our greenhouses and surrounding gardens at peak bloom time. Kelley Sullivan, Mount Auburn's Greenhouse Horticulturist & Plant Health Care Specialist, will guide you with tips and techniques.  Observe how our cut-flower gardens enhance habitat and shelter.   Register today!
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Horticultural Highlight: Lobelia cardinalis, Cardinal Flower

Lobelia cardinalis, Cardinal Flower is but one native species, which today is within a large genus of at least 400 other species of annuals, perennials, and sub-shrubs. Its botanical history traces back to early 17th-Century explorers of Canada who sent it back to France. From thence it made its way into the English garden of John Parkinson (1567-1650). 

Visionary founder of Mount Auburn Cemetery, Jacob Bigelow, also praised the beauty of Cardinal Flower in 1840, "This superb plant, prized..."  Read more
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Wine Tasting
Wine Tasting at Washington Tower
Thursday, August 25th at 5:30PM

Savor a hand-picked selection of wines provided by Magnolia Wine Company while enjoying the late-summer beauty of Mount Auburn in the early evening hours. Pre-registration required.
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Mapping Mount Auburn - Then and Now

Civil engineer and surveyor Alexander Wadsworth's maps were works of both art and science. They locate the first cemetery lots as well as the seven hills of Mount Auburn, numerous water bodies, new and proposed roads and paths, and Consecration Dell.  
Learn more
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Bird walk
Wildlife: Nighthawk Watch from Washington Tower 2016!

Join us at the top of Washington Tower for a Nighthawk watch! From mid August through the first weeks of September nighthawks pass the area on their way south.
Registration required!

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Eternally Green:  What's in a seed?

Consult a dictionary and it may tell you that a seed is a mature fertilized plant ovule, consisting of an embryo and its food store surrounded by a protective seed coat. 

When I look at a seed, I see everything we need to survive wrapped up in a small, portable bundle.  When seeds grow into plants, they provide us with food to eat, clothing to wear, construction materials for shelter, medicines to fight ailments, and oxygen to breathe.

Seeds can be living time capsules, giving us a rare glimpse of what grew thousands of years ago.  In 2005, a seed was...  more
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Person of the Month:  William Alfred (1922 - 1999)

This month we celebrate the life of American playwright and poet William Alfred, who wrote The Curse of an Aching Heart, and  Agamemnon, and who was Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus at Harvard University.

A specialist in Beowulf and early English literature, Alfred was known to many students as, "The Professor."  More...
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community


 Book Talk with a uthor Kathryn Smith 
Friday, September 9th at 7PM
  Porter Square Books,  25 White St.
Cambridge, MA 02140

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Watercolors by Julie Zickefoose
April 30-September 18, 2016
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
963 Washington St, Canton, MA 02021

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The National Park Service turns 100 this year! 
Celebrate by visiting  
National Historic Site 

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