Matthew Stephens Named 14th President of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Stephens, a vocal advocate for green spaces and an outstanding business leader, will begin in his new role in September. Continue reading
May the Lichens be with You!
By Lawrence Millman If flowers are commonly placed on a loved one’s final resting place, why shouldn’t lichens be allowed to reside on that loved one’s gravestone? After all, a lichen on a gravestone occupies a branch on the tree … Continue reading
Horticulture Highlight: Empress Tree
…And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the … Continue reading
The Cemetery in Three-Dimension: Mount Auburn’s Nineteenth-Century Stereographs
Of all the early photographic formats, nothing transports the viewer back in time like nineteenth-century stereoviews. Stereoviews consisted of two photographs of an identical subject affixed side by side. When looked at through a device known as a stereoscope, they … Continue reading