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Join us on Sunday, March 23rd at 1PM in Bigelow Chapel for our first Death Café!
This is a unique opportunity to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death, following the model developed by John Underwood. Learn more
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 If one might be contemplating a winter meditation, Corylus avellana 'Contorta', Harry Lauder's walking stick could offer inspirational focus with its unusual, fabulous, branching habit.
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History Highlight: Mount Auburn's Ice Age Legacy
An Ice Age is any era in which the Earth is all or partly covered by ice. Though our planet has experienced a warming period recently (the last 11,000 years, with many ups and downs), it is still in an Ice Age!
The current one has lasted about 2 million years, with long intervals of warmer climate. During the most recent period of glaciation in the northern... learn more
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 Changes are coming to the drinking water supply in three of Mount Auburn's buildings! For some time, the Administration Building has obtained most of its drinking water from a Poland Springs water bubbler, the type with five-gallon jugs. These plastic jugs mean our glasses of water... read more
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Wildlife Highlight: The Eastern Phoebe
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The Eastern Phoebe
by Jeremiah Trimble
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The Eastern Phoebe is the first flycatcher to arrive in the northeast in the spring. It is even likely that when the first Phoebe shows up at Mount Auburn there may still be ice on the ponds and snow on the ground. The Phoebe's song is a two-note rendition of its name, an emphatic... learn more
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 Person of the Month: Jared Sparks Have you ever wandered past Sparks Street in Cambridge? Named for Jared Sparks, a historian, writer, and Harvard President, it is one of the many places and namesakes we'll learn about in Streets and Squares, a walking tour.
After a prolific literary career, Sparks became McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard, and President of the University in 1849... read more
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
Landscape Design as Ecological Art with Darrel Morrison
Grow Native Massachusetts, Evenings with Experts
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 5th at 7PM
Massachusetts Historical Society,1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Monday - Saturday, 10 AM to 4 PM Through May 23rd
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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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