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People and Happenings
Author Events at Mount Auburn Cemetery
On April 19, author Virginia Morris
discussed her book, Talking About Death
Won’t Kill You.
Virginia outlined some common
obstacles that can stand in the way of a
more peaceful death, and ways to ensure
your wishes are actually followed.
L-R: Mount Auburn Cemetery
Vice President of Cemetery &
Visitor Services Bree Harvey, Author
Virginia Morris, Mount Auburn
Cemetery Director of Planning &
Sustainability Candace Currie, Ruth
Faas of Mourning Dove Studio,
Hospice Volunteer Richard Davis,
Mount Auburn Cemetery Events
and Outreach Coordinator Corinne Elicone, and natural death care
educator Heather Massey
On May 3, author Miriam Weinstein
shared stories from and about her funny
but very serious book All Set for Black,
Thanks. Part memoir, part how-to, her
book follows a year in which she had way
too many opportunities to wear black.
Left, author Miriam Weinstein. Right, attendees Margarete Dupere and
Denise Patnod.
On May 15, after a talk about her book
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the
Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of
the Stars, author Dava Sobel led a walk
to the grave of Astronomer Willamina
Fleming,
as well as
others who
played a
role in the
incredible
story of the
pioneering women who worked at the
Harvard College Observatory from the
late-1800s through the mid-1900s. On June 13, Jane Goodrich spoke about
her first novel, The House at Lobster Cove -
a charming family saga and love story, with
characters, letters and events from history,
like protagonist, George Nixon Black,
who is buried on Eagle Avenue at Mount
Auburn Cemetery.
On June 20, author Kathryn Smith
discussed her book, The Gatekeeper: Missy
LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of
the Partnership That Defined a Presidency.
Missy LeHand, a smart and talented
woman who has been misrepresented,
mischaracterized, and overlooked
throughout history, is buried on Central
Avenue at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Save the Date: Author Talk
“Jordan Marsh: New England’s Greatest
Department Store”
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 6PM
Join us in Story Chapel for an Author Talk
by Anthony M. Sammarco on his new
book, Jordan Marsh: New England’s Greatest
Department Store. Founded in 1851 by
Eben Dyer Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh,
Jordan Marsh who opened their first store on Milk Street in
Boston selling linen, silk, calicos, ribbons, and assorted dry
goods to Victorian Bostonians.
Benjamin Lloyd Marsh, co-founder, and his brother
Charles Marsh, a junior partner, of Jordan Marsh are buried at
Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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