Roberto Mighty’s earth.sky
Official trailer for Roberto Mighty’s earth.sky – a new media project about the Cemetery that combines film, historic voices, layered design, and music.
In earth.sky, audiences experience a uniquely emotional, historical journey through breathtaking landscape cinematography, high-fidelity audio, music, and photography, while hearing the inspiring, sometimes heartbreaking and often uplifting words of individuals interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery from its inception to today. As Mighty describes it “earth.sky is not about death. It is about living people. People who once walked the earth as we now do. People who live on in the memories of others.”
Roberto Mighty's earth.sky
Official trailer for Roberto Mighty’s earth.sky – a new media project about the Cemetery that combines film, historic voices, layered design, and music.
In earth.sky, audiences experience a uniquely emotional, historical journey through breathtaking landscape cinematography, high-fidelity audio, music, and photography, while hearing the inspiring, sometimes heartbreaking and often uplifting words of individuals interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery from its inception to today. As Mighty describes it “earth.sky is not about death. It is about living people. People who once walked the earth as we now do. People who live on in the memories of others.”
Preservation and the Annual Fund at Mount Auburn
2015 has been an incredibly productive year at Mount Auburn, with exciting projects being undertaken across our different departments to continue making the Cemetery a welcoming and inspiring place for everyone. Our preservation and facilities staff members have been a particularly visible example this year, overseeing the significant restoration work being done on our Egyptian Revival Gateway and all of the other front entry precinct improvements that are currently in-progress. In addition, they have remained busy conserving and maintaining the monuments and structures throughout the Cemetery, ensuring that Mount Auburn’s rich collections remain in good condition for years to come. (more…)
Restoring our Egyptian Revival Gateway: The Iron Fence
The historic cast iron fence that flanks our Egyptian Revival Gateway are the remaining sections of a fence that once ran the entire length of the Cemetery’s boundary on Mount Auburn Street. Over the years the fence suffered repeated damage from automobile accidents, downed trees, and the inevitable effects of water and rust. In the 1980’s much of the fence was dismantled, and the most intact panels were reused and installed in their current configuration. Now Mount Auburn is working with Cassidy Brothers Forge, out of Rowley,MA, and embarking on a complete restoration of the remaining sections of fence as well as the auto gates to ensure that they will last another 170 years. (more…)