News & Events, August 2012 |
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Programs & Events at Mount Auburn
Visit Mount Auburn this month! Search for butterflies, enjoy a Discover Tour, or attend book club or a wine tasting.
Check out this Summer Programs video by Growing Wisdom or sign up for a program online today.
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Cambridge Discovery Days - Free Events
August 4th & 11th
The Social and Political Activists of Mount Auburn - As part of Cambridge Discovery Days, this walking tour will visit the graves of social and political activists buried or memorialized here, while providing a general introduction to the Cemetery.
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Save the Date: A Glimpse Beyond
September 22, 2012
The Friends of Mount Auburn is proud to present A Glimpse Beyond - a unique multicultural celebration of life and death as told through music, dance, and puppetry.
Stay Tuned!
More event details and ticketing information will be announced soon.
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Horticultural Highlight: Korean Evodia, Tetradium daniellii
Of all the trees found at Mount Auburn, the Korean Evodia, Tetradium daniellii, may be the most magnetically, attractive to bees.
Standing beneath one of these trees, while in its late-July/August bloom, one can be mesmerized, with the melodic hum, and...read more |
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Horticulture Programs in August
Sketching Trees - August 19, 2012 at 9:00 am - Explore the amazing variety of tree forms using pencil and paper with Erica Beade.
Plants from the Bible - August 26, 2012 10:00 am - Join Jim Gorman to look for plants mentioned in the Scriptures.
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 Wildlife at Mount Auburn: The Common Nighthawk
The fall migration of the Common Nighthawk is one of the more "visible" aspects of bird migration. From mid-August into September thousands of migrating nighthawks pass through Massachusetts on their way south. Over 400 birds were counted from the top of Washington Tower at Mount Auburn on... read more
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History Highlight: Pitman Tomb
In 1920, Benjamin Keolaokalani Franklin Pitman constructed a white granite sidehill tomb on the west side of Auburn Lake for his family. The tomb is unique in that it bears the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawaii. This coat of arms announces to all that this tomb is home to some of the last descendants of the Hawaiian Royal Family...read more
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Eternally Green: The Introduction of the American Toad at Consecration Dell
Over the past two decades Mount Auburn has been committed to improving wildlife habitat on the grounds of the Cemetery through plantings of native ground-covers, bushes and trees with the intent of attracting more wildlife to the cemetery.
More recently, in 2011, Joe Martinez of Harvard University began a project of releasing over 4,000 tadpoles into the vernal pool at Consecration Dell in an attempt to repopulate the grounds with American toads... read more
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Person of the Month: William F. Harnden (1812 - 1845)
Born in Reading, MA, on August 23, 1812, William F. Harnden was a pioneer in the express industry.
He worked for the Boston/Worcester railroad as a conductor and passenger-clerk for the first train that ever ran over its tracks. He delivered packages as favors to friends and passengers, carrying them on his person while he made his transit.
In the mid-1830s he met James W. Hale, who asked if he knew anyone who transported packages. This exchange inspired the creation of Harnden's express delivery system... read more
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 Designing Mount Auburn
Have you ever wondered who designed Mount Auburn Cemetery? Who were the remarkable Bostonians who shaped this new garden cemetery? If it wasn't Frederick Law Olmsted (who was age 9 in 1831) who was it?
Regarded as a significant innovation in American landscape design, Mount Auburn is the country's first designed landscape open to the public and a National Historic Landmark. Join Curator Meg L. Winslow for Designing Mount Auburn - a late-afternoon walking tour through the Cemetery's beautiful grounds and learn about the landscape architects who gave shape to Mount Auburn.
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
Massachusetts Botanic Gardens Reciprocal Members Week, August 11-19th - If you are a member of a participating Massachusetts public garden, enjoy free admission and other benefits at many sites... read more
Excursion to Star Island - Wednesday, August 8th
Many Mount Auburn artists and writers like Anne Whitney, Annie & James Fields and James Russell Lowell were summer visitors to the Isles of Shoals. Join Mount Auburn Docent Rosemarie Smurzynski and Historic New England on an excursion to Star Island... read more |
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Think green. Do not print this email and you will help to conserve valuable resources. Thank you!
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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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email: friends@mountauburn.org
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