Welcoming Fall 🍂

Happy Birthday to Joyce Chen! (1917–1994) — Born in Beijing, Joyce Chen became one of America’s most celebrated Chinese restauranteurs, authors, and TV hosts.

Today is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We remember the lives lost and the communities forever changed. Amid the storm’s devastation in 2005, one plant became an unexpected symbol of hope: the Peggy Martin rose. 🌹

A serene Sunday scene. Have you seen our beautiful hydrangeas yet this year? 🦋

Visiting Mount Auburn for the first time? Parking is available on Lawn Ave. surrounding Asa Gray Garden. 🚗

Appreciation post for all the dragon 🐉 and damselflies 🌼 in our landscape and beyond. In 2024 our citizen scientists visited various sites to document dragon and damselflies that were present at each location as a part of our Adult Dragonfly Survey.

A serene Sunday scene at the Binney Monument.

It's the last Friday of Pride Month, but you can explore Mount Auburn's LGBTQ notable residents any time of year via the guide on our website: buff.ly/8mD607J

Happy Birthday to the actor and Oscar-winner, Anne Revere!

Commemorating the grave of physician, Harriot Kezia Hunt, stands her monument: "Hygeia" a sculptural treasure of Mount Auburn's funerary collection, carved by Edmonia Lewis in the early 1870's.

It's Pollinator Week! 🐝 🦋 What plants do you have in your garden that support the native pollinator population?

🍀 🌈 It may be Friday the 13th, but we're still feeling lucky! 🏳️‍🌈 As part of our ongoing Pride month series we're highlighting Mount Auburn's famous LGBTQ residents!

Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Each week of Pride we'll be highlighting an LGBTQ+ historical resident of Mount Auburn Cemetery to remind us that queer people have always existed and will always exist.

Happy Birthday to author, poet, and activist, Julia Ward Howe! Buried on Spruce Ave. in Mount Auburn Cemetery.

This Memorial Day we remember and honor the legacy of veterans buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery and their service to our country.

Happy Birthday to writer, journalist, & women's rights activist Margaret Fuller, whose cenotaph is located on Pyrola Path at Mount Auburn. 🎂

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, a public holiday in Armenia and observed by the Armenian Diaspora, including the Armenian cultural hubs of Watertown and Belmont Massachusetts. buff.ly/LVnMCGy

Last Saturday and Sunday we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of our Artist-In-Residence program with a showcase of our talented artists throughout the years. We enjoyed dances, plays, music, poetry, storytelling and more–as well as a small gallery of our visual artists' work in Story Chapel.

“…Tulip Path, hard to find on the shaft, that insistent rise to heaven goes down and down…” – Robert Creeley (Lot 1509 Tulip Path)

Just a few more weeks! 🌱

It's the last week of Women's History Month. To end our series of highlighting trailblazing women buried at Mount Auburn, we celebrate the legacy of Gertrude Wright Morgan (1861-1931), suffragist, civil rights activist, & founding member of the NAACP.

Spring is here! And this March we continue to highlight the trailblazing women buried at Mount Auburn for Women's History Month. This week, we celebrate the legacy of architect, Eleanor Raymond, who was born on this day in 1887.

Congratulations to the USA-NPN's 2024 PhenoChampion: @mountauburncem.bsky.social Citizen Scientists! 🥳🌿🎉 The Phenology Team, managed by Jacqui Kluft, observes 16 different plant species and trained 40 new observers last year. According to one observer, "my life is richer for this program."

As we venture into the ides of March, we continue to highlight the trailblazing women buried at Mount Auburn for Women's History Month. This week, we celebrate the legacy of Illustrator, Author, and Sculptor Juliet Kepes, most famous for her children's book "Five Little Monkeys".

Join our Citizen Science Naturalist Program to participate in the ecological field work taking place on our campus. 2025 volunteer trainings are available now! Sign-up today: buff.ly/Ye7kt1D

For the last week of February, and to close 2025's Black History Month, we celebrate the contributions to the fight for education equity in Boston and beyond. While, we do not have his photograph, Benjamin Franklin Roberts was a giant in Boston's Black community of the mid-1800s.

Celebrating the enduring ties of love this Valentine's Day 💘

Our ongoing series of highlights for #BlackHistoryMonth brings us to Harriet Jacobs, a freedom-seeker, accomplished author, and a source of inspiration for generations. Whose birthday also happens to be today! 🎂

Happy birthday to Amy Lowell, born on this day in 1874. Lowell's poetry lives on in the hearts & minds of many, including the New England Poetry Club, which was co-founded by Lowell & some of whose members, pictured here, visited last year in honor of Lowell's 150th birthday.

Recognized as one of the most significant designed landscapes in the country, Mount Auburn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 & designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003. Photo: Alan Ward #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesLandscape @usnatarchives

In the Mount Auburn Historical Collections & Archives you will find may interesting letterheads from other businesses like this one dated this day in 1890 informing the Superintendent that his Buggy needed new tires.

This February during Black History Month, we celebrate Black individuals for their enduring contributions, which paved the way for others and helped to shape the American experience. Our first highlight for #BHM is a local legend within the Cambridge, MA community.