Proprietors’ Annual Meeting 2023
The Annual Meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn will be held virtually on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10 AM. We welcome voting proprietors to join us for a summary of the most recent fiscal year … Continue reading
Horticulture Highlight: False-cypress, Chamaecyparis pisifera
Birds small enough to nest in our young cypressAre physicians to usThey burst from the tree exactlyWhere the mind ends and the eye sees… Donald Revell Scientific identification of plants was dramatically changed and formalized by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) when … Continue reading
Winter Season of Remembrance
The Winter 2023 Tribute ordering window has now closed.
A New American Landscape
Mount Auburn Cemetery was the expression of a new idea. Before 1831, most Americans were buried in isolated plots or in crowded town graveyards. Mount Auburn’s founders had a new vision. They designed a tranquil, natural setting, well outside the … Continue reading