Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Connecting the Present with the Past | Page 18

people & happenings
RECENT EVENTS
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1 On October 12, Meg Winslow,
Mount Auburn’s Curator of
Historical Collections, hosted
a tour for the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts Associates. Here
the group is pictured at Lot
3904 Holly Path at the grave of
General Charles Greely Loring
(1828-1902), MFA curator and
director (with the MFA logo on
his monument).
2 On October 18, we held our
second annual Sustainability
Fair. Attendees met with Mount
Auburn staff, walked through
the newly renovated Asa Gray
Garden, and learned about some
of our green efforts, including
a Green landscape equipment
demo pictured here.
3 On October 23 & 24, Mount
Auburn hosted the National
Park Service for their Regional
Meeting at the newly revitalized
Bigelow Chapel.
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4 On November 3, musician and
educator David Coffin joined
Mount Auburn docent Stephen
Pinkerton as they visited the
graves of residents with nautical
connections while singing sea
chanteys.
5 On November 4, Visitor Services
Assistant Jim Gorman led his
annual Fall Foliage walking
tour for a large group of happy
leaf-peepers.
6 Reverend Joy Fallon, Senior
Minister of King’s Chapel
Boston, and Reverend Jennifer
D. Beal, Priest-in-Charge at
St. John’s Church, Sharon, MA,
were the speakers at our annual
Candle Lighting Service in Story
Chapel on December 19.
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