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Candle Lighting Ceremony
Wednesday, December 18th at 4PM
Join us for this program in Story Chapel and light a candle in honor of someone you wish to remember. Weather permitting, we will place the lighted candles in nearby Asa Gray Garden at the conclusion of the event. Candles will be sold at the program.
We will host a reception immediately following the service. We hope you will join us in Bigelow Chapel for refreshments and conversation.
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Horticultural Highlight: Winterberry,
 One of our seasonal joys to brighten your day, and our landscape, is the Winterberry, Ilex verticillata.
At this time of year, some of them are unmistakable landscape celebrities, displaying abundant, bright-red, berries upon their leafless stems, literally brightening winter's early arrival. We say some of the Winterberries are...learn more
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Wildlife Highlight: The Christmas Bird Count
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
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The Christmas Bird Count, sponsored by the National Audubon Society is the biggest birding event of the year - last year 71,531 people participated in 2,369 different areas amassing a total of 64,133,843 individual birds!
Mount Auburn Cemetery has contributed one of the rarest birds found on a Christmas Bird Count in Massachusetts - an Ash-throated Flycatcher in...read more
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History Highlight: Forest Pond
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Forest Pond, Thomas Chambers
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Mount Auburn Cemetery has always been, in the most literal sense, a picturesque landscape.
This is all the more so demonstrated by the many works of art that depict the Cemetery's scenic vistas and sacred places.
One spot in particular, Forest Pond (sometimes referred to as Narcissus Pond), was depicted over and over again by artists of the 19th century (there's even a painting of it in the National Gallery!)...learn more
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Greenough dog at the lot of Thomas Handasyd Perkins.
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Person of the Month: Horatio Greenough
Sculptor Horatio Greenough was born in Boston in 1805. He studied literature at Harvard and was granted permission to leave prior commencement in order to study sculpture in Rome.
In Italy, he joined a thriving community of artists. His career flourished as commissions for subjects drawn from literature and mythology...read more
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Mount Auburn Founded on 'Natural Burials'
 Mount Auburn was founded in 1831 as the nation's first rural cemetery and an experimental garden.
Designed as a natural setting for the burial of the dead and inspiration to the living, the Cemetery today continues as "a place to bury and commemorate the dead in surroundings of exceptional natural beauty that provide comfort and inspiration to the bereaved and the public"...learn more
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
Holiday Open House at the Longfellow House
George Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Thursday, December 5 & Friday, December 6, 4 - 7 PM
Stop by on Thursday or Friday, December 5th and 6th to step back in time and experience a Victorian Christmas at the Longfellow House.
www.nps.gov/long
1863 Winslow Homer Holiday House
Saturday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 8, 12 - 4 p.m.
Join us for a holiday open house in the mansion made famous by the art of Winslow Homer. Admission at the door: $10 adults, $5 teens and children. Information: 617-484-4892. Please note: The Homer House is not wheelchair accessible. www.belmontwomansclub.org
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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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