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Celebrating 175 years!
In 2006-07 Mount Auburn Cemetery is marking the 175th Anniversary of its founding with a yearlong celebration that started in June
2006 and features public programs highlighting Mount Auburn’s extraordinary cultural, historic and natural resources.
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Highlights of the 175th Anniversary:
* Ceremony at the State House, June
22, 2006, honoring the signing of the
legislation authorizing the creation of
Mount Auburn in 1831.
* Ceremony at the Cemetery, Sep-
tember 24, 2006, commemorating the
175th Anniversary of the actual date of
the Consecration of Mount Auburn.
* Free Public Lecture Series: “Facets
of Mount Auburn Cemetery:
Celebrating 175 Years of a Boston
Jewel,” October 2006-May 2007,
Boston Public Library, Copley Square.
Art
and Music Programs, at Mount
*
Auburn and offsite.
* Gala Dinner, June 14, 2007, at
Mount Auburn, closing the Anniver-
sary year.
Art and Music Programs
Highlighting artists and composers buried
at Mount Auburn or works featuring
Mount Auburn.
February 1 – March 8, 2007:
The Vose Galleries of Boston hosted an
exhibition of paintings by artists buried
or cremated at Mount Auburn.
May 19, 2007:
Soloist Jean Danton, with piano ac-
companiest, sings pieces by composers
who were buried or cremated at Mount
Auburn. At 2:00 PM in Bigelow Chapel.
September 2007:
“Remembering E. Power Biggs,” two
organ recitals, at 2:00 and 5:00 PM, with
guest speakers, at Adolphus Busch Hall,
Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the
Harvard University Art Museums.
Last chance to attend the 175th Anniversary Lectures
“Facets of Mount Auburn Cemetery: Celebrating 175 Years of a Boston Jewel”
Free lecture series at the Boston Public Library:
• April 10, 2007, The Asian Connection:
Daniel J. Hinkley, celebrated West Coast
horticulturist, plant explorer and author.
Co-sponsored by Arnold Arboretum, Mass-
achusetts Horticultural Society, New England
Wild Flower Society, and the Wellesley College
Botanic Garden.
• April 24, 2007, The Pleasure, Art and
Science of Birding: Wayne R. Peterson,
Director of Important Bird Area Program
at the Massachusetts Audubon Society,
and Scott Weidensaul, natural history
writer. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Museum
of Natural History and the Massachusetts
Audubon Society.
• May 15, 2007, Cultural Landscapes in
America: Dr. Charles Beveridge, Editor
of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, and
Arleyn Levee, national expert on cultural
landscapes and their preservation.
Co-sponsored by the National Association for
Olmsted Parks, Olmsted National Historic Site
and the Friends of “Fairsted.”
All lectures are held at 6:00 PM in the Rabb Auditorium of the Boston Public Library, Copley Square. A reception will follow each lecture.
The lecture series is sponsored in part by the Anthony J. and Mildred D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust.
Our lecture series partners are: The Boston Athenaeum; The Boston Public Library; Historic New England; The Massachu-
setts Historical Society; and The National Park Service.
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
580 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-5517
www.mountauburn.org • 617-547-7105
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