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Enjoy special benefits offered during Members Week!
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Stop by our Visitors Center between September 8th - 14th and show your membership card to receive your gift of a Friends of Mount Auburn Eco-friendly shopping bag. Perfect for sustainable grocery shopping!
*The Visitors Center is open from 9 AM to 4:30PM, seven days a week (with the exception of closings due to memorial services).
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Reciprocal Admission Opportunities Monday, 9/8 - Sunday, 9/14
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Cambridge Discovery Days
Are you interested in city-wide tours of Cambridge? Join experienced guides and performers for free tours and events throughout the city the third weekend in September.
Participation is easy: pick tours, meet guides at starting locations - and go! All tours and events are free and will go on rain or shine! For more information, contact the Cambridge Historical Commission at 617-349-4683.
Ever wonder for whom the Streets & Squares of Cambridge were named in honor of, and why? Join Mount Auburn Volunteer Docent Carol Harper at 1PM on Saturday, September 20th at the Cemetery to find out!
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Wildlife Highlight: Fall Warblers
Roger Tory Peterson was the first to coin the phrase" Confusing Fall Warblers" in his Field Guide To the Birds first published in 1934 and devoted separate pages depicting those birds and pointing with arrows the significant points to look for during the fall migration.
John Dunn in his Field Guide to Warblers of North America states: "Despite the fearsome concept of "confusing fall warblers" the identification is generally straightforward given adequate views... learn more |
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Horticultural Highlight: Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
A plant we may consider as an example of endless summer is our Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia. Having already been in bloom for many weeks now, this is a plant which may continue its floral display into October.
Native to Afghanistan, Iran, and the Himalayas, the genus name honors Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky (1794-1857), Russian general and statesman, and the specific epithet,atriplicifolia means having leaves like the genus Atriplex.
Regardless of the plant's etymology, its beauty, adaptability and toughness, has earned for it the select... learn more
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History Highlight: Hymn Sung at Consecration
Reverend John Pierpont, Unitarian minister and Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard, wrote a hymn for Mount Auburn Cemetery's Consecration Ceremony in 1831.
The crowd of over 2,000 spectators joined him in singing it (to the tune of "Old Hundred"). Read more...
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 Eternally Green: Recycling and Bottle Bill
Mount Auburn's recycling program has processed about 6 tons of paper, plastic, glass and metals each year for the past 2 years; saving about 35 trees, 19 cubic yards of landfill waste, and about 1800 kWh of electricity a year. Learn more
about our recycling efforts!
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Person of the Month: Lois Lilley Howe (1864-1964)
Lois Lilley Howe
Lot 24, Olive Path
In 1888 Lois Lilley Howe entered MIT's School of Architecture for a two year "Partial Architecture" course. After graduation she worked as a drafter, artist and librarian in the Department of Architecture at MIT before working at the firm of Allen & Kenway.
Her first commission to build a house was in 1894 and in 1901 she established her own firm. She was the second woman elected to the American Institute of Architects and the first woman elected to the Boston Society of Architects... read more
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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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