Category: Events

(Cottage Street is off Mount Auburn Street across from Stanton Funeral Home)

Mount Auburn Cemetery is sponsoring an electronics recycling day on Saturday, January 20, 2018. Bring your items to Mount Auburn’s service yard at 24 Cottage Street, Watertown, MA between 10 am and 1 pm. There will be a $30 charge for TVs, $15 charge per CRT monitor or flat screen monitor. Bring cash with you if you plan to drop off those items. All other items listed below will be recycled free of charge.

Questions? Recycle@mountauburn.org

 

Acceptable Items:

Phones

Modems

Printer

Radios

Batteries

Towers

Computer Speakers

Routers

Ballasts

Switch Gear

Wire

Refrigerators

Cell Phones

Chargers

Lawn Mowers

AC Units

Medical Equipment

All Appliances

White Goods

Fire Alarm Equipment

PC’s

Scrap Metals

Copiers

Pipe

Fax Machines

Battery Operated Tools

Scanners

Filing Cabinets

Servers

Printed Circuit Boards

Switches

Metal Desks

Microwaves

Bicycles

Light Fixtures

Ink and Toner Cartridges

Electrical Equipment

Keyboards

Laptops

Chargeable Items:
TV’s of any kind are $30.00 apiece
Monitors of any kind are $15.00 apiece with or without a computer
Household Speakers are $10.00 a pair

Not accepting:
Toy Plastics (Toys)
Car Seats
Wood
Light Bulbs

Recycling Services Provided by Northeast Material Handling, Inc., Haverhill, MA.

Sorry, no trash picking allowed. Once a product is dropped off, it belongs to Northeast Material Handling.

Not all of Mount’s Auburn’s “notables” are residents. King Edward VII of England, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, John Wilkes Booth, Herman Melville, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and John Denver all visited Mount Auburn as tourists, travelers, or mourners. Join Susan Zawalich on a walk to discuss some of these notable visits.

 

 

Funding for programs has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

In celebration of Women’s History Month we will read the new biography The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency (2016) by Kathryn Smith. LeHand is buried on Central Avenue.

Each month, the Mount Auburn Book Club meets to discuss a selected work related to one of Mount Auburn’s many facets. Selections range from books on history, natural history, horticulture, art, architecture, preservation, and wildlife to books written by or about those now buried and commemorated here. The Book Club meets in Story Chapel on the second Thursday of each month. Coffee and tea are provided.

 

Funding for programs has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

In this biography, Harriet Jacobs: A Life (2003), Jean F. Yellinrecounts the years Jacobs spent hiding in her grandmother’s attic from her sexually abusive owner as well as her escape to freedom and her later years in Cambridge. Harriet Jacobs is buried on Clethra Path.

Each month, the Mount Auburn Book Club meets to discuss a selected work related to one of Mount Auburn’s many facets. Selections range from books on history, natural history, horticulture, art, architecture, preservation, and wildlife to books written by or about those now buried and commemorated here. The Book Club meets in Story Chapel on the second Thursday of each month. Coffee and tea are provided.

 

 

Funding for programs has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.