Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Mount Auburn: Chapters of Poetry & Prose | Page 22

Did
know...?
• in addition to its classification as a cemetery, arboretum,
and wildlife sanctuary, Mount Auburn is also an archive
and library, home to over 3,000 books, spanning over
1,500 authors.
…and
• by the end of 2012, the Mount Auburn Book Club will
have met 60 times, and read and discussed 60 books!
• the Friends of Mount Auburn hosted ten literary-themed
public programs in 2012.
• fifteen groups, spanning three continents, participated in
guided tours of the Cemetery this year.
…and that
• there are over 40 esteemed poets buried at Mount Auburn,
spanning many genres of poetry.
…and also
• dozens of monuments are sculpted to depict life-sized
books, while hundreds include literary passages, quotations
from notable authors, or selections from religious texts.
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