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News & Events August 2008
Dear Friend,
The Friends of Mount Auburn is pleased to present
the August 2008 edition of our electronic
newsletter. We invite you to join our email list to
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Cambridge Discovery Days
"From Settlement to Revolution." In keeping
with this year's Cambridge Discovery Days theme, we
invite you to join us for the following free walking tours
of Mount Auburn:
Join us on Saturday, August 9th, at 4:00 PM for
"The
Natural Beauties of Sweet Auburn." Long
renowned
as a place of great beauty, even before the Cemetery's
founding, this land was once known to locals
as "Sweet Auburn." During this tour, we will focus on
the natural history of the Cemetery and the features of
the landscape that existed here prior to the
Cemetery's founding in 1831.
"Memories of Revolutionary Cambridge at
Mount Auburn." On Saturday, August 16, at 4:00
PM we will visit the monuments of those
with direct ties to the Revolution as well as the graves
of nineteenth-century authors and historians who
wrote about these remarkable events.
Please
register
online for these walks and other
programs at Mount Auburn.
Learn more about Cambridge Discovery Days and the
many free events planned to take place:
www.cambridgema.gov/~Historic/walks.html.
Horticultural Highlight
Native to Japan and Eastern China, Clerodendrum
trichotomum - also known as Harlequin
Glorybower - is a small deciduous tree or
evergreen shrub with dark green, fuzzy elliptical leaves
and fragrant clusters of pink and white tubular
flowers.
A member of the Verbenaceae family,
Clerodendrum is a sub-tropical plant with
multiple trunks and a sweet jasmine-like scent. Easy
to care for, it can tolerate drought conditions, stabilize
a slope and grow up to 10 feet tall.
Planted along the southern slope of Fountain Avenue
(just beyond Auburn Court Crypts) at Mount Auburn in
2002, Harlequin Glorybower sometimes continues
flowering into autumn when brilliant metallic-looking
blue-green fruit draw further attention to the tree.
Learn more about Mount Auburn's
horticultural
collections.
Celebrate Biodiversity at Mount Auburn
Birds, Butterflies & Botany. Join Dave Barnett,
Acting
President of Mount Auburn
Cemetery, and Robert H. Stymeist, Brookline Bird
Club's statistician and Bird Observer's bird sightings
compiler, at 7:30 AM on Tuesday, August 12th, for a
celebration of biodiversity at Mount Auburn.
The Cemetery, well-known for its beauty and
horticultural diversity, is also an important wildlife
refuge. On this walking tour you will learn why Mount
Auburn has remained a significant animal habitat and
what is being done to make it
even more attractive to birds, butterflies and other
wildlife.
Visit
www.mountauburn.org to register for this
free program and to learn about
other
summer events at the Cemetery.
Bring binoculars, if you have them. In
case of severe weather, alternative date is
Wednesday, August 13th, at 7:30 AM. Call 617-607-
1983
for weather-related updates.
Summer Programs
Join us for one of our summer programs:
Monument Inscription Workshops. Join us at
2:00 PM on
Thursdays, August 7th and 21st, to learn
techniques for assessing the condition of older
monuments and recording inscriptions that are fading
away with time! Meet near the Entrance Gate. FREE.
Mount Auburn Book Club. This month we
invite both adult and young adult readers to join us for
a discussion of the classic children's novel
Pollyanna by Eleanor Hodgman Porter on
Thursday, August 14th at 10:00 AM.
Author Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920) is
buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Meet at Story
Chapel. FREE.
Visit Mount Auburn Cemetery's Organic
Cut-Flower Gardens. Join us at 2:00 PM on
Thursday, August 14th, for this opportunity to visit one
of Mount Auburn's hidden gems with Kelley Sullivan,
Horticulture Staff, Mount Auburn. Meet at the
Greenhouse. $5 for members of the Friends, $10 for
non-members. Space is limited.
Pre-registration is
required.
Summer Discovery Hike. Children and their
families
are invited to join us on Friday, August
15th, at 1:00 PM to discover the
wonders of Mount Auburn. Children of all ages are
invited to participate, but must be accompanied by an
adult. $5 per family for members of the Friends, $10
per family for non-members.
Visit
www.mountauburn.org to learn about
other
summer programs.
Burial and Memorialization Options
Timeless and Still Available
You may have noticed ads for Mount Auburn Cemetery
in your local paper or heard our name on TV or the
radio. Now come see what those ads are about, and
learn how Mount Auburn is still an active cemetery
nearly 177 years after our founding.
Join Mount Auburn's Candace Currie, Director of
Planning & Cemetery Development, and Jim Holman,
Director of Cemetery Services Administration, on
Wednesday, August 13th, at 4:00 PM for a walking tour
of available burial and memorialization options.
Docent Training Days at Mount Auburn
Would you like to be an ambassador for Mount Auburn
Cemetery? Mount Auburn currently welcomes
200,000 visitors annually and we are currently looking
for enthusiastic individuals to join our Volunteer
Docent Program.
Docents will greet visitors at Mount Auburn's Visitor
Center as well as lead tours of the Cemetery. We
are seeking individuals with interests in history,
horticulture, art, architecture and birding. Most
importantly, we are looking for people who wish to
share their love of Mount Auburn Cemetery with our
visiting public.
New volunteer docent training classes will begin in
September. Two sessions of five-week classes will
meet once per week and will provide a solid overview
of Mount Auburn's many facets.
The course is free, but preregistration is required.
Please register
by Friday, August 22nd. A packet of
materials will be sent out to registrants prior to the first
class. Session One: Mondays,
September 8 - October 6, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Session Two:
Saturdays, September 6 - October 4,
10:00 - 11:00 AM
You can now join or renew your membership in
the Friends of Mount Auburn quickly, securely and
easily online!
The Friends of Mount Auburn
Cemetery was established in 1986 as a non-profit
educational trust to promote the appreciation and
preservation of Mount Auburn. Join the Friends of Mount
Auburn.
Learn about volunteer opportunities at Mount
Auburn.
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
phone:
617-547-7105
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