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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 Tech Solutions of Waltham. There will be a $5 charge per CRT monitor and hard drive data wiping and $15 per tube TV.
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Wildlife Highlight: Winter Birding at Mount Auburn
Winter is an ideal time to get familiar with the year-round birds of Mount Auburn. This time of year offers the opportunity to see and hear Sparrows, Robins, and Cardinals, you might also see a Cooper's or a Sharp-shinned Hawk or possibly a Great Horned or a Screech Owl... learn more
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Eternally Green: Regina Harrison - Mount Auburn's 2014 Green Award Recipient
Hats off to Regina Harrison, the Executive Assistant at Mount Auburn, is the fifth Green Award Recipient!
Starting in 2010 Mount Auburn has been recognizing an employee every year who employs "green" practices in their life and at the Cemetery, and shares these choices for the benefit and education of colleagues and the community... read more
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Horticultural Highlight: Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas Fir
Native to northwestern North America, as well as at higher elevations in our western mountains, Pseudotsuga menziesii. Douglas Fir is botanically not a true fir (Abies), having pendulous rather than upright cones, among other differences.
The wood of this species, with strength and lightness, has had many economic uses, from housing timber, flooring, paneling, furniture, to maritime usage. The USS Constitution has used Douglas Fir for keel and masts during its long life.
Douglas Fir has also been used by many as a Christmas tree. Learn more...
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Person of the Month: Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806 - 1867)
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Monument of Nathaniel Parker Willis, photo by Rob Velella
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This month we remember the life of poet, editor, publisher, essayist and, for a time, the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.
On New Year's day, 1829, Parker wrote:
Winter is come again.
The sweet south west
Is a forgotten wind, and...
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History Highlight: Memorial park concept at Willow Pond
 In the early part of the 20th-century, noted landscape architect Laurence Caldwell wrote that older cemeteries were "uninteresting and repelling because of the hodge-podge of objects and monotonous view of tombstones."
Caldwell believed cemeteries should become more "park-like with inspiring natural scenery." Learn more...
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
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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