News & Events, April 2013 |
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Rose & the Nightingale Performance
Saturday, May 18th at 5PM
Join us to hear Rose & the Nightingale play music from their debut album Spirit of the Garden in Story Chapel.
Inspired by botanic gardens, their new album blurs the boundaries of jazz, folk, world, and chamber music. This special performance will integrate the poetry of Mount Auburn poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925). Friends members will enjoy a special pre-concert Q&A with composer Jody Redhage in Bigelow Chapel at 4 PM. Register.
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 | The Black and white Warbler
by Bob Stymeist |
Wildlife at Mount Auburn: The Black and white Warbler
The Black and white Warbler can be found anywhere at Mount Auburn, athough the Consecration Dell area is undoubtedly the best area to see and hear it. The classic song is a series of very high, thin and squeaky two note phrases with some folks describing it like a squeaky wheel "wee see, wee see wee see" which it repeats several times...read more
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Eternally Green: Tips for Beginning Birders
If you walk around Mount Auburn Cemetery, you will see plenty of birds - and where you see plenty of birds, you will see plenty of birders!
Why do people take up birding? First of all, it's a great way to get exercise and to free your mind from its everyday concerns. And it gives you a chance to experience the natural world on its own terms, even in a relatively urban setting, as you observe birds interacting with each other and the environment around them. Mount Auburn, designated an Important Birding Area...learn more
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A Timetable of Migration at Mount Auburn
May is when the peak abundance of migrant birds are to be found at the Cemetery! Visit our website for an approximate week-by-week timetable of the optimal time to see certain species.
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Friends of Mount Auburn May Calendar
Once again we have a very exciting mix of monthly programming at the Cemetery!
Join us for one of our Discover walking tours, an Ice Age Legacy program, A Mother's Day walk, a tour of Contemporary Commemoration or an Open House at Bigelow Chapel! These events and many more are listed on our website calendar.
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 Mount Auburn Book Club Thursday, May 9th at 10AM Join us this month to discuss British novelist Evelyn Waugh's classic book The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948). It is a satirical look at the funeral industry in Los Angeles.
If you like reading, you might enjoy our magazine...
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Spotlight on Sweet Auburn (1986-2013)
To date there have been 46 issues of Sweet Auburn, since 1986. It was called a newsletter from 1986-2006 and became a magazine in the fall of 2007.
Re-visit some of our fantastic issues and be on the lookout for a new magazine this summer!
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Service of Commemoration
Wednesday, May 22nd at 5PM
Please join us for our annual Service of Commemoration. Words and music will help us to remember those who have gone before us during this Memorial Day service on Bigelow Chapel Lawn.
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History Highlight: Alice's Fountain Commissioned
In November of 1862, Mrs. Mary (Augustus) Hemenway offered to pay Mount Auburn $6,000 if the Corporation would "construct a fountain opposite my lot..."
The completed project resulted in a fountain capable of throwing a tall jet of water into the air. A map of the area from 1866 shows the fountain as being labelled "Alice's Fountain".
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Horticultural Highlight: Cornus florida
Few trees can surpass the striking beauty of Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida in bloom. Many people, gardeners and non-gardeners alike, consider this to be the most beautiful native tree, in the eastern United States. This tree has an extensive natural range, from southern Maine, southern Ontario, and Michigan, to Texas and Florida. When its flowers have fully expanded, in late April/early May, particularly with advantageous light, they seem to sparkle, shining through the landscape...read more
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Horticultural Programming in May
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Person of the Month: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
In February of 1862, Julia Ward Howe's poem "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in Atlantic Monthly. Inspired by a visit to the Union troops near Washington, D.C., the poem became a national success and made a celebrity of Howe.
Howe used her fame to promote the Women's Peace Movement and instituted the annual Mother's Day for Peace in 1872. This was the beginning of a lifelong dedication to the growing Women's Suffrage Movement.
In 1908 Howe became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1910, at her memorial service at Symphony Hall, over 4,000 visitors sang "Battle Hymn of the Republic"... read more
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Mount Auburn on WGBH Digital Mural
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Mount Auburn Cemetery's photos were displayed on the WGBH-PBS digital mural above the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston!
The photos were from our Seasons of Mount Auburn photo exhibit.
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
Scott Weidensaul lecture Living in the Wind: Exploring Bird Migration & Simple Ways to Save Birds at the Arlington Town Hall, Tuesday May 7th. Doors open at 6:30, lecture is at 7:15 PM
Open House at the Museum of African American History
Thursday, May 23rd from 4 to 7 PM
For more information: www.nps.gov/BOAF
Poems that Grew from a "Spreading Chestnut Tree"
Tuesday, June 4th at 6 PM
The Cambridge Historical Society, co-sponsored by the Friends of Mount Auburn
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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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friends@mountauburn.org
tel: 617-547-7105
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