People and Happenings
Stay connected:“ Find Us On Facebook”
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People and Happenings
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Stay connected:“ Find Us On Facebook”
No matter where you turn these days, people are being asked to join the throngs of the multi-connected. This spring, the Friends of Mount Auburn jumped on the social media bandwagon and expanded its presence online with a page on Facebook and channels on You Tube and Flickr. The Friends’ use of these social media applications, along with our electronic newsletter, has allowed us to bring much more timely information to our members and supporters around the globe. By becoming a fan of the Friends of Mount Auburn on Facebook, a social networking site, you will find timely information and other interesting stories that relate to the Cemetery on a regular basis. With YouTube, a video sharing site, the Friends is now able to produce and share short videos about the Cemetery. Our first two videos on Facebook were created this past spring during our participation in the Partners in Preservation initiative to explain the story of our Egyptian Revival Gatehouse. New videos on notable figures, horticulture, art and architecture, and history are forthcoming. Flickr, a photo sharing website, allows us to share images of the Cemetery’ s many facets including“ What’ s In Bloom” images and pictures from recent public programs.
To stay even more connected with the Friends, please do find us on Facebook!
And, check out our videos on You Tube and our images at Flickr:
http:// www. youtube. com / mountauburncemetery http:// www. flickr. com / photos / mountauburncemetery
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Do YOU know your carbon footprint?
Edward H. Morris( left), co-founder of The Canary Project and a 2008-2009 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, speaks to the full Mount Auburn staff and invited guests about climate change and sustainability at Mount Auburn Cemetery’ s Story Chapel on June 17.
The Canary Project – which Morris co-founded in 2006 with his wife, photographer Susannah Sayler – uses visual media and art to deepen greater public understanding of climate change and to energize humanity’ s commitment to solutions. The presentation was planned as staff training in light of Mount Auburn Cemetery’ s burgeoning sustainability and“ green” programs. The poster behind Morris was designed and modeled by a group of students at Dorchester( MA) McCormack Middle School as part of a Green Patriot Program that Morris organized there in the spring of 2009.
Morris, son of Mount Auburn Senior Vice President Piper Morris, received his BA from Wesleyan University( CT) and his MA( in East Asian Studies) at Harvard. He was formerly a partner at the James Mintz Group, a financial and legal investigative firm in New York City. He and his wife Susannah are artistsin-residence this fall as teaching participants in a Visiting Visionary program at Indiana University.