Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Mount Auburn and The Civil War | Page 2
President’s
Corner
Sweet Auburn
A publication of the
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
580 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-547-7105
www.mountauburn.org
Editorial Committee
Bree D. Harvey, Editor
Vice President of Cemetery & Visitor Services
Jennifer J. Johnston, Managing Editor
Webmaster, Media & Imaging Coordinator
David P. Barnett, Contributing Editor
President & CEO, Mount Auburn Cemetery
Jane M. Carroll / Vice President of Development
Dennis Collins / Horticultural Curator
Candace Currie / Director of Planning & Sustainability
Gus Fraser / Director of Preservation & Facilities
Jenny Gilbert / Senior Gifts Officer
Regina Harrison / Executive Assistant
James Holman / Director of Cemetery Sales
Tom Johnson / Family Services Coordinator
Meg L. Winslow / Curator of Historical Collections
Consultant
Robin Hazard Ray
Designer
Elizabeth Bonadies
Circa 1885 photograph
Printer
P+R Publications
Cover Photo: 19th-century stereo view of the Mount
Auburn Sphinx. Situated across from Bigelow Chapel,
this great Civil War memorial was designed by Mount
Auburn’s founder and president Jacob Bigelow and
carved in granite by Martin Milmore. A gift to the
Cemetery from Bigelow in 1872, it is the only war
memorial in the United States in the form of a sphinx.
In this Issue
The Union of Abolitionists and Emancipationists in
Civil War-Era Massachusetts / 2
Trustees of the Friends
of Mount Auburn Preserving their Memory: Mount Auburn’s Civil War Heroes / 4
Mary Lee Aldrich, Chair, Cambridge, MA
David P. Barnett, President & CEO, Boxborough, MA
Sean McDonnell, Secretary & Treasurer, Cambridge
Caroline Mortimer, Vice-Chair, Cambridge Remembering Dear Ones: Lowell’s Commemoration Ode / 6
Honorary Trustee of the Friends Highlights from the Historical Collections: The Sphinx / 10
Susan W. Paine, Cambridge
The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery was established in
1986 to assist in the conservation of the Cemetery’s natural
beauty and to promote the appreciation of its cultural, historic,
and natural resources. Organized in 1990 as a 501(c)(3)
non-profit charitable trust, the Friends seeks financial support
from its members, other individuals, foundations, corporations,
and public agencies. It receives gifts for educational and inter-
pretive programs and materials for the public, specific cultural
projects, and operating support for horticultural rejuvenation
and the preservation of the historic monuments, structures,
and archival artifacts and records. The Friends has over 1,300
active members.
Poetic Responses to the Civil War / 8
Reviving the Victorian Landscape / 12
Stories Behind the Stones: Zabdiel Boylston Adams, MD / 13
People & Happenings / 15
Remembering Blanche Linden / 19
Did You Know? / 20
Preservation of the Egyptian Revival Gateway / 21
Upcoming Events / Back Cover
See more online at www.mountauburn.org
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