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Mount Auburn Cemetery:
A Mosaic of American Culture
by Stephen H. Anable, Freelance Writer, and Lauren Marsh, Staff
T
hey are immigrants and Yankees, artists
and entrepreneurs, pioneers in politics,
civil rights, science, and the arts. They are
individuals who are celebrated in New England
and the nation—and those known mainly to their
families, friends, and descendants. They are the
people interred at Mount Auburn, whose lives
literally are the substance of America—the pieces
of the mosaic that make up this country.
Their presence here is a silent but eloquent testimo-
ny to the inclusiveness that has always characterized
Mount Auburn Cemetery ever since it was founded
in 1831. Mount Auburn has welcomed people from
all faiths, races, nationalities, and economic means
through three centuries, and continues to do so today.
Here, then, are some of their lives, the “stories
behind the stones.”
Above, top left: “Glow Palace” by Gyorgy Kepes, 1983, 12x14, oil and sand on canvas; above, top right: Montreal Biosphère designed by Buckminster Fuller, photo by Rene Ehrhardt; above, bottom right: Stained glass
window by Sarah Wyman Whitman, Courtesy of First Parish Brookline, photo by Michel Raguin; above, second from right: The “Finland Designs” 50th Anniversary display in the D|R building at 48 Brattle Street,
Cambridge, MA, photo by Peter Vanderwarker (Newton, MA); above, bottom left: Mugar’s Ladies and Gentlemens Café and Lunch, Corner of Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA, 1908. Brothers
Gregory (seated on the running board), Charlie (at the steering wheel), and Sarkis Mugar (holding his daughter Mary) with other family members ready for a day at Nantasket Beach. Project SAVE Armenian
Photograph Archives, Watertown, MA, courtesy of John Mugar, Marco Island, FL; above, center: the Bronson Alcott Farmhouse, Published courtesy of the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
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