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People and Happenings
Program and Special Tour Highlights
Through late spring and all summer, Mount Auburn
presented a number of varied walks and tours, some
perennial events and others one-of-a-kind.
A group of 20 members of the Friends of Fenway Court,
a donor association of the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, visited the Cemetery on May 16 with Bill Clen-
daniel, Vice President of Operations & Horticulture David
Barnett, and Director of Education & Visitor Services Bree
Harvey. Following their walking tour, which included a
stop at the Gardner family tomb, the group gathered for
refreshments in Bigelow Chapel.
Thirty Boston by Foot volunteer docents visited the
Cemetery for a tour led by Bree on June 2. Their visit was
offered as a training option for the docents, who lead tours
of downtown Boston.
David Barnett, the well-known birder Bob Stymeist and
naturalist Marjorie Rines led a group of 32 to explore
Mount Auburn’s “Birds, Butterflies and Botany.” Bree
Harvey led the first in a series of evening hour-long sum-
mer strolls, which were well attended, with many young
families present, while Visitor Services Specialist Dawnielle
Peck’s “Discover Mount
Auburn” was equally
popular throughout the
summer. Unique programs
included Greenhouse Man-
ager Maurene Simonelli’s
workshop on medicinal
plants at the greenhouse.
Bob Stymeist led his annual
Nighthawk Watches at
Washington Tower, the
22 nd year of the always booked-up event. As part of “Cam-
bridge Discovery Days,” Dawnielle Peck led a literary walk,
“Mount Auburn: A Muse to our Nation’s Writers,” attended
by more than 40 people. On August 24 Bree hosted a tour
focused on African-American notables buried at the
Cemetery for a group of first-year students from MIT.
Mount Auburn hosted members of the newly formed New
England Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture
& Classical America on September 23. Curator of Histori-
cal Collections Meg Winslow, accompanied by Archivist
Brian Sullivan, led the group on a walk titled “The Arca-
dian Necropolis: A Tour of the Romantic Landscape
and Classical Monuments of Mount Auburn Cem-
etery.” A reception followed in Bigelow Chapel, where
members viewed the newly restored North Window.
16 | Sweet Auburn
Mount Auburn Wins National Trust
for Historic Preservation Award
On October 4, the
National Trust for
Historic Preserva-
tion awarded Mount
Auburn the 2007
Trustees Emeritus
Award for Excellence
in the Stewardship of
(L to r) Richard Moe, President of the
Historic Sites.
National Trust for Historic Preserva-
tion, Bill Clendaniel and Jonathan
“This is a wonderful
Kemper, Chairman of the Board of
recognition of Mount
Trustees, National Trust for Historic
Auburn’s many decades
Preservation
of leadership in main-
taining a nationally
significant historic site,” says Mount Auburn President Bill
Clendaniel, who traveled to St. Paul, MN, to receive the
honor.
The award “recognizes achievement over a period of at
least 25 years in any one or more of the following areas:
promoting preservation through unique and effective
programming, preservation and maintenance of historical
structures and landscapes, interpreta