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Did you know that today is Giving Tuesday? It's a day dedicated to generosity and giving back, and an opportunity to contribute to the organizations you value and spread the word about the work they do!
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Candle Lighting Service 2015
Our annual Candle Lighting Service, held each December, provides the opportunity to remember all of the loved ones no longer with us. Join us 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.
Reception immediately following the service will be held in Bigelow Chapel... more
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The Friends Announce A Publication:
The Art of Commemoration and
America's First Rural Cemetery:
Mount Auburn's
Significant Monument Collection
Written by Melissa Banta
with Meg L. Winslow
Introductory essay by David B. Dearinger
Foreward by Dave Barnett, President and CEO of Mount Auburn Cemetery
The first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the country, Mount Auburn was a virtual outdoor museum-an interwoven tapestry of art and... more
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Horticultural Highlight:Hinoki Falsecypress,
Chamaecyparis obtusa
Hinoki Falsecypress is a beautiful evergreen conifer, native to Japan, where there are majestic individuals over 500-years-old. This tree may reach 50 to 75-feet in height, although there are many compact, and dwarf-sized, cultivated varieties used in landscapes.
The etymology derived from Greek is chamai meaning on or of the ground, and kyparissos meaning cypress tree. The rich, dark green, scale-like leaves are blunt at their apex, hence the Latin name obtusa. On a future visit to Mount Auburn look for Hinoki Falsecypress on Pyrola Path, and Redbud Path... learn more
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Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
and Photogrammetry at Mount Auburn
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Close-up of matrix created by photogrammetry software on image of Thatcher Magoun Monument
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Mount Auburn's Monument Inscription Project works to document details and inscriptions on 19th century monuments which are slowly disintegrating due to exposure to the elements. However, there is a limit to what can be seen and documented with the naked eye.
With a grant from the Preservation Services Fund for Eastern Massachusetts of the National Trust for Historic Preservation we contracted with Cultural Heritage Imaging in 2014 to document several monuments using two innovative computational photographic techniques, Reflectance Transformation Imaging and Photogrammetry... more
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Wildlife Highlight: The Pine Grosbeak
The Pine Grosbeak is usually a bird of the northern boreal forest, but if food is deficient they may come southward in winter. There was a little southern invasion of Pine Grosbeaks in 2008-9 and again in 2012-13, so if we are lucky and they continue that pattern this may be another fallout year to see them live and up close in our area... read more
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Person of the Month: Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Episcopal Bishop and rector of Trinity Church, Phillips Brooks was born in Boston on December 13, 1835.
Brooks spent the years of the Civil War in Philadelphia and following Lincoln's death, spoke at Harvard Commencement to an audience that included Julia Ward Howe (Lot 4987) and Oliver Wendell Holmes (Lot 2147).
Brooks later traveled to Palestine where he was inspired to write the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Learn more
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Eternally Green: The Autumn Apiary
As the shadows of autumn have grown longer, our honeybees are preparing for winter. This last year, the bees gave us approximately 50 pounds of honey and inside each hive is yet another 60 to 70 pounds that the bees will use to keep the colony alive through... read more
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Current Projects at Mount Auburn
Learn more about current projects happening at the Cemetery today.
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
Our National Parks and the "Fairsted School": An Enduring Legacy
with Ethan Carr, PhD, FASLA
6PM Reception | 7PM Lecture
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus
Seating is limited and reservations are required.
Reserve online or 617-566-1689, ext. 265
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Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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