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People and Happenings
Toasting A Treasure:
A Celebration of the
Binney Monument
On Sunday afternoon, April 26, 2015, art lovers
and art historians joined trustees and friends of Mount
Auburn at the Binney Lot on Heath Path to celebrate
the conservation of a National Treasure, the large marble
monument to physician Amos Binney created by sculptor
Thomas Crawford in 1847-50. Gus Fraser,Vice President
of Preservation & Facilities, welcomed the gatheri