William Pelby redux - Mt. Auburn

Look closely. . . .

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

Celts in Mt. Auburn

Colonel Thomas Nash - Mt. Auburn

Colonel Thomas Nash

John McClary - Mt. Auburn

"We Must Be Heroes."

John McClary

Looking up in Mt. Auburn

Mary Baker Eddy in the green of Spring

Thacher - Mt. Auburn

Thacher

Blanchard-Mason - Mt. Auburn

Blanchard-Mason

Sears - Mt. Auburn

Sears

Weber - Mt. Auburn

Weber

Oakes - Mt. Auburn

The beauty of solitude, the quiet of timelessness.

Oakes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr - Mt. Auburn

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Esty - Mt. Auburn

Esty

Wade - Mt. Auburn

Wade

"Until the day break" in Mt. Auburn

A Gothic Revival - the Bigelow Chapel in Mt. Auburn

The Colors of Friendship - Mt. Auburn

A Stewart Celtic Cross in Mt. Auburn

Stewart

Fanny Parnell - Mt. Auburn

Fanny Parnell

"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."

The colors of Mt. Auburn in April of 2010

Brothers Albert and Henry Noll - Mt. Auburn

Albert Noll

Henry Noll

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

The Ferris, Story and Livermore path to everlasting peace in Mt. Auburn

Ferris-Story

Livermore

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.

"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."

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?

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?

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.

Waterman-Comstock, Swan Point Cemetery Providence, RI

From

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

Willow Pond Knoll sculpture in Mt. Auburn

Cummings - Mt. Auburn

Charles Sumner - Mt. Auburn

"Wife" in Mt. Auburn

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"