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March 2015
In This Issue
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Discover Tour

Saturday 

3/7 at 1PM

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Book Club: March

Thursday 

3/12 at 10AM

 

 

Women's History Walk

Saturday 

3/14 at 1PM

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Winter Tree Walk

Thursday 

3/19 at 3PM

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Winter Bird Walk

Saturday 

3/21 at 8AM

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Public Lots

Sunday 

3/22 at 1PM

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Lunch Lecture: 

The Revere Legacy

Thursday 

3/26 at 12Noon

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Innovators in Medicine

Saturday 

3/28 at 1PM

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Symbols of Passage

Sunday 

3/29 at 1PM 

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Photo by Roberto Mighty
Roberto Mighty's earth.sky planned for Open Studios

As part of Cambridge Open Studios, Mount Auburn's first artist-in-residence Roberto Mighty will be presenting a preview of earth.sky, a site-specific multimedia installation on May 9th & 10th... read more
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Photo by Joe Martinez
Eternally Green: Mount Auburn Toad Project Continues

There has been an ongoing project over the past three years of releasing American Toad tadpoles in the Dell with the hope of 
establishing a self-sustaining population of American Toads at the Cemetery...learn more
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Winter Walk
Winter Tree & Shrub Identification
Thursday, March 19th at 3PM

Join Mount Auburn President Dave Barnett as the snow-covered ground gives way to the earliest spring flowers and buds. We will observe the signs of spring's arrival and learn how to identify interesting trees and shrubs at Mount Auburn.  Register today!

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Wildlife Highlight: The Belted Kingfisher 
Belted Kingfisher, 
photo by Jeremiah Trimble

As soon as the ice melts over Willow Pond in the spring - be on the lookout for the Belted Kingfisher. This large headed bird with a dagger like bill and ragged crest will perch high in the willows to watch for prey of small fish or even frogs. 


 K
ingfishers can also be found at the Cemetery near Auburn Lake and Halcyon Lake.  Halcyon is actually a literary word for kingfisher, named after a Halcyone, a Greek goddess who was the... read more

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Supporting Mount Auburn's Annual Fund

Every time we near the end of another fiscal year (March 31st), it is a chance for us to reflect on what we have achieved in the past twelve months and get excited for the new projects we have in store for the future. 

In the past year, Annual Fund donations from supporters like you have enabled our staff to do a great variety of work and with your help, we can enjoy another successful year of preserving our beautiful landscape and monuments, promoting our history, and protecting local biodiversity.  Learn more
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Horticultural Highlight:

Cryptomeria japonica, Japanese cedar

  
Cryptomeria circa 1989 at Mount Auburn.  View a present-day photo of the same tree!
Cryptomeria is an evergreen conifer that frequently grows into a 50-60-foot-tall, graceful, stately tree. Its �-3/4-inch-long, awl-shaped, needles are often curving inwards towards the stem. The �-1-inch globular cones are made of 20-30 scales which each are distinctly toothed.

Cryptomeria is the national tree of Japan. Within Japan, there often is a reverence towards these trees, perhaps analogous to how people view giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the United States. 


 In southern Japan, on Yakushima Island, there is an aged forest growing these trees that in 1993 was declared one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. There, some Cryptomeria are publicly claimed to be 7200 years old... read more

 

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Person of the Month: 
Architect Eleanor Raymond (1887 - 1989) 
Traditional and modern -reminiscent of colonial markers but contemporary in style.  

Lot 637 Greenbrier Path


 
While a young architect-in-training in 1915, Eleanor Raymond was hired to work in the firm of Henry Atherton Frost (Lot 6827 Fountain Avenue). Raymond's soon-to-be popular designs for Colonial Revival houses were not only commissioned by local clients, but were also featured in House Beautiful magazine and were mail-ordered nationwide. 


 
Eleanor eventually opened her own office in Boston in 1935 and continued to practice into the 1970s. Raymond's partner died in 1969, however Eleanor lived to be 102 years old.  Learn more...

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History Highlight: New Columbarium built in Story Chapel 

In 1941 a new columbarium was built in the basement of Story Chapel. The design by Architect John Radford Abbott offered "a dignified and attractive resting place for cremated remains." (Annual Report, 1941). The first three alcoves consisted of... read more
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community

 

Grow Native Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts 2015

Wild Orchids of New England 
Bill Brumback, Director of Conservation, New England Wild Flower Society
Wednesday, March 4th at 7PM
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
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Landscape Architects Series at the Massachusetts Historical Society

A series on some of New England's most distinguished landscape architects cosponsored by the Friends of Mount Auburn and the Nichols House Museum:


 
Charles Eliot & the Modernization of Boston with Anita Berrizbeitia 

Wednesday, March 4th


 
The Brookline Troika with Keith Morgan 

Wednesday, March 11th

 Landscape Architect Arthur Shurcliff with Elizabeth Hope Cushing 
Wednesday, March 18th


 
Reception at 5:30 followed by a talks at 6PM. No fee for members of Friends of Mount Auburn, Nichols House Museum or MHS Fellows or Members.  

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Perspectives on Place: Visible Invisible with Gary Hilderbrand FASLA

Thursday, March 12th 6 PM Reception, 7 PM Lecture

Friends of Fairsted, at Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street Brookline, MA
Cosponsored by the Friends of Mount Auburn

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American Neoclassic Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum

February 26th - May 16th 2015

Exhibition features works from the Athen�um's collection 

 

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A Will for the Woods - Green burial documentary now available on DVD, iTunes, and Vimeo. Determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth, musician and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial. View the trailer at www.awillforthewoods.com.
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