Spotted Salamanders at Consecration Dell
by Chris Leahy Spotted Salamanders spend most of their lives beneath the forest floor feasting on earthworms and other fossorial invertebrates. But once a year during the rainiest nights of early spring, legions of this and other species of mole … Continue reading
Mount Auburn’s Ice Age Legacy
by Robin Hazard Ray An Ice Age is any era in which the Earth is all or partly covered by ice. Though our planet has experienced a warming period recently (the last 11,000 years, with many ups and downs), it … Continue reading
Boston Courier’s Account of the Consecration
The Boston Courier’s account of the public Consecration of Mount Auburn Cemetery, September 24, 1831. An unclouded sun and an atmosphere purified by the showers of the preceding night, combined to make the day one of the most delightful we … Continue reading
Consecration Dell
The world rolls round,–mistrust it not,– Befalls again what once befell; All things return, both sphere and mote, And I shall hear my bluebird’s note, And dream the dream of Auburn dell. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day Of all the many spots … Continue reading