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Graves in the Garden:
Natural Burials at Mount Auburn
Saturday, June 14th
Natural Burials "Fair"12 to 3:35PM - Local organizations and vendors will be on hand to answer questions and talk about services they provide in support of at-home funerals and natural burials.
Film: A Will for the Woods 1 to
3PM - There will be a brief Q&A with the filmmakers at the conclusion of this award-winning documentary.
Walking Tour
3 to 4PM - See what a natural burial grave looks like and talk to our staff about how these burials differ from other "traditional" graves.
Mark Harris Lecture 4 to 5:30PM
- Mark Harris, former columnist for the L.A. Times Syndicate and member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, will discuss his views on green burial.
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Wildlife Highlight: The Massive Migration of May 2014
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A Fork-tailed Flycatcher, just the 4th spring record for the state was discovered on Indian Ridge, May 13th
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May 2014 was a GREAT month for birds and those of us who watch them at Mount Auburn Cemetery!
A total of 137 different species were seen during the month by the many birders who pilgrimage here each spring migration.
Mount Auburn has always been recognized as one of the best locations to see the migration of many neo-tropical song birds, especially wood-warblers, 27 of which were recorded during the month. Learn more about this exciting month from Bob Stymeist, Bird Observer's Bird Sightings Compiler and a regular bird walk leader for the Friends of Mount Auburn!
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Our Town and Mount Auburn Cemetery:
Reflections on Two American Masterpieces
The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery cordially invites the general public to join us on Thursday, June 12th at a theatrical salon exploring American playwright Thornton Wilder's Our Town in Story Chapel at 7PM.
Following the performance by actors from Cambridge's Underground Railway Theater, we will explore connections between these two American masterpieces: Our Town and Mount Auburn Cemetery. Free and open to all, however pre-registration is required.
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Eternally Green:
Mount Auburn Certified as Hybrid Burial Ground
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Shadows Enough: Hawthorne and Mount Auburn
Thursday, June 19th at 5:30 pm
 Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote that Mount Auburn is "justly celebrated as the most interesting object of the kind in our country."
Though he is buried in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, it was 150 years ago that he died. Celebrate this author's life by learning about his connections to Mount Auburn and to those interred here during a tour led by literary historian Rob Velella.
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Horticultural Highlight: Catalpa, Catalpa speciosa
Noted horticulturist and author William Cullina, in his 2002 book, Native Trees, Shrubs and Vines, vividly describes the Catalpa tree as, "...large, frilled flowers possessing a hothouse beauty strangely at odds with the visage of the tree itself. The effect akin to a heavyweight boxer in drag." Undoubtedly, Catalpa flowers are its chief ornamental asset.
The 2-inch long and wide, short-tubular shaped white flowers, are enhanced with frilled edges, and multiple speckled rows, leading into the flower, a kind of pollinators signage, or GPS directional. In the midst of this purple... learn more
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Summer Beer Tasting on Bigelow Chapel Lawn
Thursday, June 26th at 5:30PM
Join us on Bigelow Chapel Lawn for a beer tasting with local brewers Pretty Things.
We'll sample a selection of beers, including a special historic brew.
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History Highlight:
Oakes Ames Reinterprets Horticulture Mission
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Photo by Arthur C. Haskell
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As president of Mount Auburn from 1934 - 1963 and 1967 - 1968, Oakes Ames made horticulture a high priority at the Cemetery.
Under Ames the horticulture infrastructure was greatly expanded in the 1930s with new greenhouses and the acquisition of nursery land in Lincoln, Massachusetts to grow plants for the Cemetery.
He also initiated a landscape gardening and florist service and encouraged proprietors to...read more
Text based on: Berg, Shary Page. Mount Auburn Master Plan Volume 2 (1993).
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 Dances of the Spirit: The Works of Isadora Duncan
Saturday, June 28th at 2PM
Known as the "mother of modern dance," Isadora Duncan created a series of mourning dances following the accidental deaths of her two children in 1913. Dances by Isadora will perform these evocative dances of wind, sea, darkness, and light in Hazel Dell. Learn more
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Person of the Month:
Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (1824 -1904)
Writer-philosopher-reformer Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney is remembered on the Littlehale family monument at Mount Auburn Cemetery (Lot 953 Fir Avenue).
At sixteen, Cheney was the youngest member of a group of women including author and reformer Caroline Wells Healey Dall (Lot 1804 on Gentian Path) to attend Margaret Fuller's "Conversations" - discussions on varied topics - such as slavery, transcendentalism, and the feminist movement. In 1874 Cheney became the first woman... learn more
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
Scentless Spring: Ecosystems Under Siege by White-tailed Deer
with Thomas Rawinski, Botanist, USDA Forest Service
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, June 4th at 7 PM
Thursday, June 26th at 7:15 PM
Sundays on the East Lawn at 3PM
Longfellow House, 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138
June 22: Jenna Moynihan & Mairi Chaimbeul (Violin and Harp)
June 29: New Poets with Cambridge Poet Populist Lo Galluccio
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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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