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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It was such a joy to host Mark and Marcia Wilson for their Eyes on Owls program this past weekend. Thank you to all who joined us for this educational and inspiring event meant to bring us closer to these amazing animals.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Have you ever heard of a death doula? Ever wondered what they do or how they support families at the end-of-life? Join us next Monday for a free virtual panel Demystifying Death Doulas and have your questions answered! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifyi...

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In honor of Veterans Day and the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Mount Auburn Cemetery is pleased to announce a new self-guided tour highlighting Revolutionary War veterans buried at Mount Auburn. This tour will be available on our Bloomberg Connects digital guide.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

What do you think? Is it peak foliage season yet? 🍂

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our digital guide features: -Four introductory walking tours, including one meditative audio-tour. -Ability to explore points of interest by area of the Cemetery. -Extensive information on notable figures, landmarks, significant trees and monuments.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

How to access the app: On your smart phone's App Store download the free Bloomberg Connects Arts + Culture app. Once the app is downloaded, search "Mount Auburn Cemetery" to get started. No login is required to access our guide.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We are excited to announce that Mount Auburn Cemetery’s digital visitor guide is now live on the Bloomberg Connects app, an arts and culture mobile platform that helps visitors explore museums, gardens, and historic sites around the world.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

As we walk Mount Auburn’s paths today, we honor the enduring presence of the Massachusett, Pequossette, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Pawtucket peoples.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The body was treated as sacred—a vessel that carried the spirit through life—and laid to rest with care. These customs reflect a worldview in which all beings are interconnected and the land itself holds memory.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Even though Mount Auburn is credited with establishing American views on burial and commemoration, Indigenous communities practiced burial traditions grounded in reverence for life, death, and the natural world.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

For the Massachusett, Massachuseuck means “At the Great Hill.” Generations traveled footpaths through what is now Mount Auburn and along the Quinobequin—“the meandering river,” later renamed the Charles.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Today we honor the Indigenous peoples who have lived for thousands of years on the land we now call Cambridge and Watertown—especially the Massachusett and Pequossette Tribes, whose descendants continue to care for this region.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Today, Joyce Chen Foods, run by her son, continues her legacy. In 2014, she was honored on a U.S. postage stamp.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Her popular Joyce Chen Cook Book (1962), PBS show Joyce Chen Cooks (1968), and line of cookware and sauces helped bring authentic Northern Chinese cuisine into American homes.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

After moving to Cambridge in 1949, she began teaching cooking and in 1958 opened New England’s first Mandarin Chinese restaurant, introducing dishes like Peking Duck, Moo Shi Pork, and her famous “Peking Ravioli” (potstickers).

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Here at Mount Auburn, a Peggy Martin rose thrives at our Pond Avenue signpost. Each spring, it bursts with pink blooms, feeding pollinators and reminding us that life can persist — and even flourish — after unthinkable loss.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Propagated and shared across the country, the rose now bears her name, honoring both her loss and her love of gardening. It has since been planted in gardens and landscapes nationwide as a living emblem of endurance.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Peggy Martin was an avid gardener in Louisiana whose home and beloved collection of 450 antique varieties of flowers were destroyed by the floodwaters. After two weeks under 20 feet of salt water, only one plant in her garden survived — a thornless climbing rose.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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. 🌹

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A serene Sunday scene at the Binney Monument.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Homer is buried on Lily Path in Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A studio photograph, made while they were in Paris, mimics the conventions of marriage portraits. Kelsey inscribed the back of the photograph with the names "Damon and Pythias," famous ancient Greek heroes and lovers [...]."

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

One of his closest friends was Albert Kelsey, a fellow artist whom he initially met in 1858 in Massachusetts. In 1867, Kelsey traveled with Homer to Paris, where they lived together for the next two years.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Constructing Homer as a solitary eccentric, who virtually withdrew from human society, most scholars have overlooked evidence of significant, intimate associations with other men.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Very little is known about Homer's "private" life. He consistently refused to answer personal questions from critics and potential biographers, and he left no revealing diaries or other personal papers [...]

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

According to the research of art historian, Richard G. Mann for the GLBTQ Archives, Homer, a lifelong bachelor shared close relationships with many men throughout his life, and seldom with women leading to speculation about his sexuality. Mann writes...

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Homer began sketching around the age of 11 and apprenticed with a commercial lithographer by 19. Homer disliked the experience of working for someone else, comparing it to servitude, so he opened his own studio on Winter Street and found success as a freelance illustrator.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

One such historical figure, is the prolific landscape painter, Winslow Homer who was born in Boston on February 24, 1836.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sometimes, it's difficult to uncover LGBTQ stories in history due to the pervading prejudice queer individuals faced. Their relationships and identities were often clandestine and shrouded in rumor and gossip.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

She is buried in Lot 11002 near the Azalea Garden Wall at Willow Pond.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Others refused to participate in the blacklisting process. When Revere was called to testify in 1951, she refused and was blacklisted. Revere was reported to have said, “I’m a free thinking Yankee rebel and nobody’s going to tell me what to do!”

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee arrived in Hollywood, seeking to remove all traces of Communism and left-wing ideas from the film industry. Some in the Hollywood community cooperated and gave the names of those suspected of Communist sympathies.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This film became a classic and launched Taylor’s long career. Revere was nominated and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs. Brown in the film.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

She moved to Hollywood in 1940 and achieved a short but noteworthy career as a character actress, performing in 31 films in the 1940s. In 1944 Revere was cast as the mother of twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Best known for her Oscar winning role in the film National Velvet, Anne Revere was born on June 25, 1903. Born in New York, New York, Anne Revere was a remote relative of the famous silversmith and Revolutionary hero Paul Revere.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The ethereal figure stands among the most cherished monuments at Mount Auburn, representing the work of one of the only African American women to achieve professional recognition for her contributions to nineteenth-century art.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Historian Marilyn Richardson reflects on "Hygeia": “The doctor and the sculptor chose to introduce a woman of ancient power and authority into Mount Auburn Cemetery’s landscapes of influence, a woman who, in a place of loss and bereavement, they posed striding forth...”

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

To this day there is still speculation about Lewis's romantic life. As a deeply private individual, not much evidence of her suspected same-sex attraction exists. Lewis never married, had no children, and spent much of her life in an artistic community of lesbian sculptors.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Lewis’s success enabled her to save enough money to move to Rome, a center for artists and writers. There she received acclaim for her talent, including from Pope Pius IX, who came to her studio and blessed her work.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Scholar Kirsten Pai Buick explains that “Lewis was not objecting to the coverage she received in the abolitionist press, nor did she ever turn down monetary aid. Rather, what she found insupportable was the condescension regarding her skill as an artist.”

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Lewis felt uneasy about the recognition of her talent solely because she was a Black woman. “Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don’t want that kind of praise,” she told the abolitionist Lydia Maria Child.

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