People and Happenings
People and Happenings
175th Anniversary Concludes
April 24, 2007,“ The Pleasure, Art and Science of Birding,” the sixth in the free seven-lecture series,“ Facets of Mount Auburn,” held at the Boston Public Library during Mount Auburn’ s 175th Anniversary celebration year, featured Norman Smith, Director of Massachusetts Audubon Society’ s Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton, MA; Scott Weidensaul, a natural history writer; and Wayne R. Petersen, Director of the Important Bird Area Program at the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
May 15, 2007,“ The Cemetery and the Park: Nature, The Designed Landscape and Urban Planning” was presented by Dr. Charles Beveridge, Series Editor, The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, and cultural landscape historian Arleyn Levee. With a capacity of 300, all of the 175th lectures had virtual standing-room-only audiences and were enthusiastically received. The speakers and all lecture attendees were the guests of Mount Auburn at wine and hors-d’ oeuvres receptions following each of the seven lectures throughout the year.
( Above, right) Audience members talking before the lecture
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( Above) Norman Smith calms an agitated hawk.
( Left, l to r) Laura Johnson, President of Massachusetts Audubon Society; Hamilton Coolidge( Westwood, MA), an Honorary Trustee of Mount Auburn; and his wife, Barbara, at the birding lecture.
( Left) Bill Clendaniel( l) with speakers Arleyn Levee and Charles Beveridge
Photos by Jennifer Johnston
April 10, 2007,“ The Asian Connection,” the fifth in the lecture series, presented Daniel J. Hinkley, a celebrated West Coast horticulturist, plant explorer and author, discussing the many connections between the horticultural treasures of Mount Auburn Cemetery and the flora of the Far East.
( Above, right) Enjoying the reception after the Hinkley lecture
( Right) Longtime friends Dan Hinkley and Mount Auburn Trustee and horticulturist / author Tom Cooper( Watertown, MA).
( Left) Two of Boston’ s Guardian Angels check out the Mount Auburn reception at the Boston Public Library after the Hinkley lecture.
May 19, 2007, Vocalist Jean Danton and pianist Thomas Stumpf performed works written by composers buried at Mount Auburn in Bigelow Chapel. The music of George Whitfield Chadwick, John Knowles Paine, Randall Thompson, Henry Worthington Loomis, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Henry Kimball Hadley, and Arthur Foote was played and enjoyed.
September 30, 2007,“ Remembering E. Power
Biggs” consisted of two free organ recitals by Richard Benefield, Deputy Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. The program presented the music of the preeminent American organist who is buried at Mount Auburn. The concerts took place at Adophus Busch Hall at Harvard.