For the third lecture in our seven-part series "Facets of Mount Auburn: Celebrating 175 Years of a Boston Jewel," Hall will lecture on No Margin; No Mission: Mount Auburn Cemetery as a Charitable Enterprise and how non-profit organizations in 19th-century Boston were founded with a mission and the imperative to be entrepreneurial.

The program is free to the public and will begin promptly at 6:00 PM in the Rabb Auditorium of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, followed by a reception with the lecturer and a chance to enter to win Mount Auburn-related raffle prizes, including Mount Auburn Cemetery's Reflections audio driving tour, Jacob Bigelow's History of Mount Auburn Cemetery, a copy of the Consecration Dell Guide and a special item related to the lecture which will be revealed later.

Space is limited and registration is requested. Please call 617-607-1995 or visit www.mountauburn.org to register for this event. To ensure a seat in the auditorium, please plan to arrive early for the lecture.

Co-sponsored by The Boston Foundation.

Learn more about Mount Auburn's 175th Anniversary .

Uncommon to the Pine genus, the Japanese Red Pine branches grow and spread in an upright manner with brown oval cones, like those pictured to the upper-left, growing in clusters to approximately 2” in length.

Tree number 78 on the Mount Auburn Cemetery “Unusual Trees” map, the Pinus densiflora 'Umbraculifera' or Japanese Red Pine (now more than 65 years old) has bright green, seemingly plastic looking needles which contrast sharply against the cool blues of the winter's afternoon sky and against the strikingly reddish-orange colored bark of the unusual muti-trunked tree.

Recognized widely in ornamental gardens throughout Asia, the Pinus densiflora is surprisingly reported to be cultivated as a valuable source of timber in its’ native Japan.

Learn more about Mount Auburn's horticultural collections.

Please join us to celebrate Longfellow's 200th birthday with a dramatic presentation about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's connections with the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad, given by National Park Service rangers.

As is tradition, after the indoor program, we will hold a short wreath-laying ceremony at Longfellow's grave on Indian Ridge Path before returning to Story Chapel for birthday cake and conversation.

This year's very special 200th birthday program also marks the induction of the Longfellow National Historic Site and Mount Auburn Cemetery into the "National Underground Railroad: Network to Freedom," a program of the National Park Service.

This event is free to the public and will be held at Story Chapel, Mount Auburn Cemetery on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:00 AM. Coffee and tea will be served at 9:30 AM.

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Following the celebration at Mount Auburn, the Longfellow National Historic Site will host an open house from 1:00 - 4:00 PM at 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, in honor of Longfellow's birthday.

Visit the Longfellow National Historic Site.

In celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery's 175th Anniversary and the Vose Galleries of Boston's 165th Anniversary, Vose will host an exhibition of paintings by artists buried or cremated at Mount Auburn.

The February 1 - March 8, 2007 exhibition will include paintings such as Lobster Cove, Annisquam, MA by George Loftus Noyes (1864- 1954), pictured to the upper-left.

Also included will be the works of Olive Parker Black (1868-1948), James Frothingham (1786-1864), Ralph Gray (1880-1944), Ross Sterling Turner (1847-1915), Helen Mary Knowlton (1832-1918), Nelly Littlehale Murphy (1867-1941), Stephen Parrish (1846-1938), John White Allen Scott (1815-1907) and others.

Vose Galleries, located at 238 Newbury Street in Boston, is the oldest family-owned art gallery in the country.

For hours and directions, visit www.vosegalleries.com.

Thumbnail image: G. Noyes (1864- 1954), Lobster Cove, Annisquam, MA, Oil on canvas, circa 1990-05, Carrig-Rohane frame, Collection of Abbot and Marcia Vose. Photo courtesy of Vose Galleries.