Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Connecting the Present with the Past | Page 20

people & happenings
GRANT NEWS
By Jenny Gilbert
Director of Institutional Advancement
T
he Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery (FOMAC)
received a $3,000 grant from Mass Humanities to
support moderated conversations following The Mount Auburn
Plays in June and September, a series of one-act plays written by
Patrick Gabridge as part of his two-year artist residency at the
Cemetery. The grant will support two humanities scholars, Dr.
Myra Glenn and Laura Kathrein, who will work with Gabridge
to craft discussion points to help audience members consider
the context of the plays and their presentation on the unique
stage of a historic cemetery. Gabridge’s plays will mark, preserve,
sometimes celebrate, and sometimes grieve our history and
culture, and the post-performance conversations will help
us achieve our goal of creating a shared space for dialogue,
understanding, and reflection, making a more meaningful
audience experience. FOMAC also received a $1,500 grant
from the Bob Jolly Charitable Trust to support The Mount
Auburn Plays. Bob Conway Jolly was a renowned Boston actor
and Freedom Trail Player who is buried at Mount Auburn. The
Trust makes small grants to individuals and organizations that
are part of the Greater Boston theater community.
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FOMAC also received an $80,000 grant from the A.J. & M.D.
Ruggiero Memorial Trust and a $4,500 grant from the Hollis
Declan Leverett Memorial Fund to support a new phase of a
habitat restoration project at Consecration Dell—the North
Dell Meadows. This will provide a critical new expansion
to the habitat we have been restoring in the heart of the
Cemetery for more than twenty years.
General Operating Support Grants:
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Landry Family Foundation
Massachusetts Cultural Council
A.J. & M.D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust
Edwin S. Webster Foundation