December 2014
In This Issue
Candle Lighting
The Brewer's Sparrow
Mobile App Grant
Abies balsamea
One Thousand Curbs Installed
Electronics Recycling
Eleanor Porter (1868 - 1920)
Beyond Our Gates
Quick Links

 

Walking Tour

Saturday 

12/6 at 1PM 


 
 

Calling All Coneheads

Sunday

12/7 at 1PM


 
 

Book Club:
Pollyanna

Thursday

12/11 at 10AM 


 

Food Network Walking Tour

Saturday

12/13 at 1PM 


 

Candle Lighting 

Wednesday

12/17 at 4PM 

 

 

Discover 
Walking Tour

Saturday

1/3 at 1PM


 

Cherubs & Angels 

Sunday

1/4 at 1PM 


 

Book Club: The Great Wave

Thursday

1/8 at 10AM 


 

Understanding Cremation

Saturday

1/10 at 1PM 

 

Annual Candle Lighting Service

Candle

Our Candle Lighting Service, provides the opportunity to remember all of the loved ones no longer with us. 

 

Join us on Wednesday, December 17th in Story Chapel for this seasonal program of words and music. 


During the service, you will have the opportunity to light a candle in honor of someone you wish to remember.

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Wildlife Highlight: The Brewer's Sparrow

The Brewer's Sparrow
photo by Jeremiah Trimble
The Brewer's Sparrow is a common western United States species breeding from extreme western North Dakota and west to south eastern Alaska and then south to New Mexico. 

Now, you are wondering, how does Mount Auburn figure into this scenario?  Well, it was 141 years ago that this sparrow was collected at the Cemetery near...read more
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Grant Supports New Mobile App Project
  
The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery is delighted to announce that it has received a grant of $106,720 from the A.J. & M.D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust in support of a three-year project to create a multimedia interactive visitors mobile app. 

This multi-platform people/location finder will provide better access to Mount Auburn Cemetery's rich archive of materials about the individuals buried and commemorated at the Cemetery as well as its notable horticultural, art, and architecture collections. The mobile app will...read more   
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Horticultural Highlight: Abies balsamea, balsam fir 

Abies balsamea, balsam fir is familiar as the traditional, fragrant, Christmas tree among many people. 

The human nose can detect thousands of different odors - a whiff of the ocean, freshly cut grass, vanilla, coffee, lilacs, roses, - but many of us experience distinct emotions, reaching back to childhood memories of Christmas when smelling a balsam fir. 

Native to North America, this is a tree that grows well in cold climates. Its needles are flat, �-to-1-inch-long, bluish-green above with a double-white...read more
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History Highlight: One Thousand Curbs Installed (1859 - 1875)
  
Throughout Mount Auburn's historic core you will find ornate curbs, borders, buttresses and posts.  Over 1,000 family burial lots were enclosed in granite during the short period of 1859 - 1875.  

By 1870 the ratio of enclosed lots (iron fences and granite curbing) rose to 57%. This trend created a "maze of structures which encumbered the grounds."  Following this burst of...learn more
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Eternally Green: Save the Date!
Electronics Recycling Day

Mount Auburn is sponsoring an electronics recycling day on Tuesday, January 20, 2015.  
All items will be picked up and recycled by Surplus Technology Solutions of Waltham. There will be a $5 charge per CRT monitor and hard drive data wiping and $15 per tube TV

Learn more about electronics recycling.
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Person of the Month: Eleanor Porter (1868 - 1920) 
 

Best known as the author of Pollyanna, Eleanor Porter was born in Littleton, New Hampshire in 1868. Porter's third book, Pollyanna was translated into eight languages, became a play in 1916 and a motion picture in 1920. Walt Disney later produced another Pollyanna film in 1960. 

 

Publishers eventually trademarked

"Pollyanna" and "Glad" - issuing a "Glad Calendar" to record good...read more


 

*Please join us for a discussion of Pollyanna Grows Up at Mount Auburn's Book Club on Thursday, December 11th at 10AM!
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community

Thursday, December 11th 
6PM Reception, 7PM Lecture at Wheelock College, Brookline, MA
Free and Open to the Public!
Reservations required: email [email protected]

 

Museum of American Bird Art
963 Washington Street, Canton, MA 02021
Now through January 11, 2015, Tuesday- Sunday from 1-5pm.  

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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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