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People and Happenings

Italian Bloggers Visit Mount
Auburn Cemetery
On Tuesday, May 31st, Simona Sacrifizi, Liliana
Monticone, and Valeria Cagnina visited the Cemetery for
a tour with Curator Meg Winslow and Vice President Bree
Harvey. The Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism
organized their visit. Simona Sacrifizi is one of the top
travel bloggers in Italy. In October 2015, she was invited
by the US Commercial Service of the USA Consulate to
promote travels to the USA, in cooperation with the Visit
USA Association Italy. Liliana Monticone is passionate
about blogging, social networking, travel, and technology.
She is the author – together with her daughter Valeria
Cagnina – of a guide to low-cost travel that is hugely
popular in Italy. Fifteen-year-old Valeria Cagnina is the
youngest Italian Travel Blogger with her site: il Mondo di
Valeria (Valeria’s World).

Grant News
The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemete ry is
delighted to have received three grants for a new and
critical phase of a long-term habitat restoration initiative.
The Consecration Dell woodland-habitat restoration will
create a more sustainable plant community to support
the many species of wildlife t