Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn The Art of Memory: Monuments Through Time | Page 21

People and Happenings
In the summe r of 2010, the Cemete ry
restored the beloved Rich Monument on Garden
Avenue thanks to the generosity of a private donor. The monument’s
marble statue depicting a kneeling woman looking to heaven captured the
sentiment of many over the years. This spring the monument captured even
more hearts when a robin decided to build a nest and raise her young in
the arms of the statue on Mother’s Day.
P orte C ochere
P reservation A ward H onoring R ecent
M onument C onservation P rojects and
S tory C hapel E ntrance
The Victorian Society of America, New England
Chapter, honored Mount Auburn Cemetery with a Preser-
vation Award at a ceremony held at Mount Auburn in June.
In announcing the award, Peggy Clarke, New England
Chapter chair, applauded the Cemetery’s preservation efforts:
“Mount Auburn has had a monumental challenge through-
out its history, with the care of both an important landscape
as well as its monuments. We are honoring Mount Auburn
this year for the 2012 conservation of the Robert Gould
Shaw Monument, the statue of Nathaniel Bowditch, and
the reconstruction of the entrance way to Story Chapel.
The statue of Hygeia, whose conservation was completed
in 2008, is acknowledged as well. Congratulations on these
accomplishments!”
Trustees, staff, and donors gathered at Mount Auburn on April 20th for a
ribbon-cutting to celebrate the completion of the new Story Chapel entrance.
Former President and now member of the Board of Directors Robert M.
Wilson (left) and President and CEO Wayne Patenaude (center) of Cambridge
Savings Bank joined Dave Barnett to cut the ribbon and ceremoniously
open the improved entrance to the Chapel and Visitors Center. Cambridge
Savings Bank generously made the first and final gifts for this project,
which was also supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund,
The Lynch Foundation, Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation, The
Helen and Michael Schaffer Foundation, Edwin S. Webster Foundation,
Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust, and several individual donors.
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