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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

William Pelby redux - Mt. Auburn

Look closely. . . .

"All that live must die/Passing thro' nature to eternity."

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Friday, December 3, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

John McClary - Mt. Auburn

"We Must Be Heroes."

John McClary

Monday, November 29, 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Oakes - Mt. Auburn

The beauty of solitude, the quiet of timelessness.

Oakes

Monday, November 15, 2010

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

"Our Dear Lizzie" - Mt. Auburn

"She was the sunshine of our home,
An angel to us given!
Just when we learned to love her most
God called her back to Heaven."


Monday, October 25, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010

George Thorndike Angell - Mt. Auburn

"We must never forget that the infinitely most important work for us is the humane education of the millions who are soon to come to the stage of action."

George Thorndike Angell

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Mt. Hope in Bangor, Maine

It was a gorgeous fall day this past Columbus Day Weekend when Susie and I took a stroll through Mt. Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine. They claim to be the second oldest pastoral cemetery in the United States, after Mt. Auburn in Cambridge. We couldn't find Hannibal Hamlin -- the office is close don Saturday so we had to wander without a map. But it was a grand day to be out strolling through a large bit of New England history.



Tuesday, October 19, 2010

"Emeline and Her Children" lie in Mt. Auburn

"A bowed by sudden storms, the
Sinks on the garden's breast,
Down to the grave our sister goes
In silence there to nest."

Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Mystery of James Scorgie - Mt Auburn

James has left a tiny but enigmatic little mystery for us (for me at any rate):

"After me cometh a builder tell him I too have known."

Who was the builder (and what did he build) and what did James know? And who were the others that knew?

Friday, October 15, 2010

Caroline Morin - Mt. Auburn

She came all the way from the Department of the Loire to die in Boston at the age of 29. Did she live well? Did she miss her family, her language her food, her wine, her life? Or had she started over here, making a new life, a new family, with new ideas and different traditions?

Monday, October 11, 2010

Robert Gould Shaw, Jr. Memorial - Mt. Auburn

For the fans of Glory, and especially for my brother-in-law, Dick VandenBerg, who has exposed this incredible story to hundreds of high school students over the years.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Mt. Hope in Bangor, Maine

Final resting place of Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's 1st VP), gangster Al Brady, and many other near-famous and infamous people, Mt. Hope claim's to be the second pastoral cemetery built in America (after eMt. Auburn in Cambridge, MA).


Edward F. Jones - Mt. Auburn - updated 1/25/2011


Saturday, October 2, 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010

The Sphinx of Boston - Mt. Auburn

Sculpted by Martin Milmore of Boston in 1872, the Mt. Auburn "Sphinx" is a striking memorial to the soldiers who died during the American Civil War -- but when you stroll through Mt. Auburn you come to expect monuments out of the ordinary.


"American union preserved
African slavery destroyed
by the uprising of a great people
by the blood of fallen heroes"