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The Greenhouses are Green!
 This year we are growing 16,000 plants for our annual care, perpetual care and corporation flowerbeds.
We are also propagating nearly 10,000 groundcover plants as well as hundreds of woody plants (shrubs and trees) from seed and cuttings. If you are beginning to feel like spring will never arrive then come visit... read more
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And we have a new tallest tree!
This winter our Plant Records staff, helped by volunteers like Thibaut Collin, measured the growth of the trees appearing on our "Big Trees at Mount Auburn Cemetery" map.
The tallest "Big Tree" is now a Kentucky Coffeetree (Gymnocaldus dioicus) standing 104 feet high. The former tallest tree, a Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), measured in at exactly 100 feet (30 meters).
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Cemetery Services: Return to Life
Tuesday, April 8th at 6PM
The natural burial movement integrates cradle-to-grave sustainability, in flesh and spirit, and in after-life care. Join us for this free lecture in Story Chapel with Mary Woodsen, who brings a wealth of ground-up experience with the naturial burial movement
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Horticultural Highlight: Forsythia
Primarily an Asian genus,
Forsythia has unquestionably become one of the popular, dependable, definitions of spring.
Named to honor Scottish plantsman William Forsyth (1737-1804), Forsythia has been cultivated in Chinese landscapes since at least the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD). Learn more...
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Bird Photography Workshop
Avian photography is a wonderful way to enhance our experiences observing birds.
This workshop with naturalist
Brooks Mathewson will discuss the basics of bird photography in three sessions:
- Thursday, April 17, 6 PM
- Saturday, April 19, 7 AM
- Tuesday, April 22, 6 PM
All skill levels welcome.
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History Highlight:
Roadway Improvements for Automobiles
Automobiles, introduced into Mount Auburn in 1908, prompted a series of roadway improvements.
A steam roller and crusher were purchased the same year and the old roads were gradually replaced with a new tar macadam surface, which was... read more
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Eternally Green: Counting the Toads to Success, Part II
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Map courtesy of
Dr. Joe Martinez, Ed.D.
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In 2011, citizen-scientist Joe Martinez released over 4,000 tadpoles (Toads for Mount Auburn) into the vernal pool at Consecration Dell.
In March 2014, he reported that metamorphosed toadlets leaving Dell Pond have been dispersing throughout the cemetery! Green circles indicate juvenile toads found in 2012 and red circles indicate ones found in 2013. The observations... learn more
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Spring Concert with the Docci Quartet
Sunday, April 27th at 3PM
Join us as the Docci Quartet, part of the New England Conservatory Community Performances and Partnerships Ensemble Fellowship program, performs in Story Chapel. Several figures integral to the history of the NEC, are interred here at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Register today
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Wildlife Highlight: Chipping Sparrow
In April just as the lawns start to "green up" - the Chipping Sparrows begin to arrive at Mount Auburn.
They seem to appear all at once occupying any open patch of grass. In 1810 when Alexander Wilson first named the Chipping Sparrow he called it Spizella socialis, the social sparrow, which seems fitting since this sparrow is easily approached and... learn more
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Person of the Month:
Frederic Ward Putnam
Frederic Ward Putnam was born in Salem, Massachusetts on April 16, 1839.
By the age of sixteen, an interest in birds led to a curator position in the ornithology department of the Essex Institute. He entered Harvard the following year, studying under Louis Agassiz... learn more
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
American Oaks: A Genus to Love with Tim Boland,
Director of the Polly Hill Arboretum
Grow Native Massachusetts, Evenings with Experts
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, April 2nd at 7 PM
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Brown Bag Lunch Poetry Discussions: Poets of the West
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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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