July 2014
In This Issue
Open Archives
Horticultural Highlight
Civil War Grant
Eternally Green
Wildlife Highlight
Person of the Month
History Highlight
Songs of Mount Auburn
Beyond Our Gates
Quick Links

 

Discover Tour

7/5 at 1PM

 

Book Club: Escape from Lucania 

7/10 at 10AM

 

Summer Blooming Trees & Shrubs 7/10 at 5:30PM

 

Medicinal Plants 7/13 at 10AM

 

Time Travelers 

7/16 at 5:30PM

 

Boston in the Footlights 

7/20 at 10AM

 

Twilight Art Tour 7/24 at 5:30PM

 

Understanding Cremation 

7/26 at 1PM

 

7/27 at 1PM

 

Photographer's Paradise 

8/2 at 8AM

 

8/2 at 1PM  

 

Open Archives: Adventures in

Gastronomy, Archives Tour

 
Cambridge open annual archives tour is a fantastic opportunity for visitors to visit the archives of ten institutions, including Harvard, MIT, Municipal, and private collections.

  

This year's theme is Adventures in Gastronomy and each archive will interpret this in their own way. This could include letters by Julia Child, engineering plans for the water system, photographs and diaries documenting life in a Civil War camp, programs from state dinners, and ephemera from famous greasy spoons.  

 

Space limited. To reserve a spot, please visit www.cambridgearchives.org.

______________________________________________________________
Horticultural Highlight: Daylily, Hemerocallis spp.
     
  
  
One of the classic, colorful sights of summer, are the blossoms of Daylily, Hemerocallis spp. 
 
Hemera is Greek for day (each blossom generally lives for a day), and kallos means beautiful. While beautiful, some of these are also tough, rugged plants, which are at their best throughout July and August. 
 
Among the toughest, are the Tawny daylily, or Orange daylily, Hemerocallis fulva.  Long ago, these perennials, in their native Asia, were primarily grown for their edibleness. The flower buds, and flowers, have been eaten for millennia, throughout numerous Asian cultures, and their culinary attributes were likewise adopted in Europe during the Middle-ages, via the Oriental silk routes, eventually coming to America with Dutch and English colonial settlers.  These fragrant, funnel-shaped... read more
______________________________________________________________
Friends Awarded Grant for Civil War Monument Preservation 
 
Monument of Joseph S. Hills with carving of his hat, sword and belt.
The Friends of Mount Auburn is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $7,500 matching grant from the Massachusetts Sesquicentennial Commission of the American Civil War for a $15,000 project to conserve eleven of its most significant Civil War monuments. 
 
Learn more and help us meet our match to conserve monuments like the one to Joseph S. Hills (pictured). 
______________________________________________________________
Eternally Green: Mount Auburn Supports Renewable Energy

 

Did you know that Mount Auburn Cemetery runs on renewable energy?
 
No, there isn't a full scale photovoltaic array set up on any of the roofs, although there is a residential-sized solar hot water system at the Preservation Services Building. 
 
There isn't a wind turbine, geothermal or a biogas system installed anywhere - however, Mount Auburn purchases Green-e� certified renewable energy credits (RECs) through Renewable Choice Energy.  Find out more...
______________________________________________________________
Wildlife Highlight: Wildlife in the Dell
 
"A raccoon waddles out from under the rhododendrons...a Milk snake moves out from its den in a rock crevice and catches some rays...Five Painted turtles are sunning on a log in the pond... one of the resident Red-tailed hawks snatches a squirrel off its perch in a spruce tree, followed by a train of protesting grackles..." so it goes on a July day in Consecration Dell at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Consecration Dell has a rich history. It is the virtual soul of Mount Auburn--the geographical, historical, and metaphorical heart of this extraordinary place.
______________________________________________________________
Person of the Month: Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910)

 

Monument to Mary Baker Eddy
Born to a farming family in Bow, New Hampshire in 1821, Mary Baker Eddy went on to found the Church of Christ, Scientist.
 
Her original essay entitled "The Science of Man" ultimately grew into the 700-page text Science and Health (1875), a best seller to this day. 
 
Later in life she established The Christian Science Monitor, intended to be an honest daily newspaper. Eighty five years after her death in 1910, Mary Baker Eddy was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame as the first American woman to found and lead an international religious movement.  Read more...
______________________________________________________________
History Highlight: Mount Auburn Cemetery at the Movies! 

  

Mount Auburn Cemetery has been a setting for scenes in several recent feature films including:

Gone Baby Gone (2007): A mystery directed by Ben Affleck.

Edge of Darkness (2010): A crime thriller starring Mel Gibson.  

R.I.P.D (2013): A comedy starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds.  
 
What movie often attributed to Mount Auburn was not actually filmed at the Cemetery?  Find out on our website...
______________________________________________________________
Announcing "Love Took Me Softly By the Hand: 
The Poetry and Songs of Mount Auburn" 
 
Angel with Horn
Soprano Jean Danton and pianist Thomas Stumpf have performed the poetry and songs of those now buried at Mount Auburn for years, hoping to bring their long-forgotten words and music back to life. This recording is the fruit of that labor, and a testament to the power and endurance of the words and notes written decades (and centuries) ago. 
 
This inspired collection features works by musicians and poets now buried at Mount Auburn, including Julia Ward Howe and Amy Lowell among others.

Preview songs or purchase the album for download at cdbaby.com.  

Thank you to all of those who contributed to the Friends of Mount Auburn and made this recording project possible.  
______________________________________________________________
If you use Outlook or Internet Explorer you might see some formatting irregularities in your e-letter, such as gaps of space between article headers and text or links that seem inactive.  To correct this compatibility glitch, select "View in Browser" from the "Other Actions" menu on your message toolbar.
______________________________________________________________
Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
 
Sundays on the East Lawn at 3PM
Longfellow House, 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138 

July 6 - High Rock Mountain - 
Playing traditional broken-hearted Bluegrass with freshness and groove.

July 13 - Poetry with X.J. Kennedy and Friends

July 20 - Laney Jones - Jones' songwriting is as quirky and charming as her upbringing in rural Mount Dora, Florida. 

July 27 - Golden Rose Award winner Jean Valentine - Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her very first book. 
 
giving common
 
 
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
_______________________
[email protected]
tel: 617-547-7105 
 
Constant Contact All-Star Logo All Star 2011 All Star 2011     All Star 2012