The Cemetery has a very different mission than the Arboretum, but a common interest in conservation.ĭavid Barnett (President/CEO of Mount Auburn Cemetery) was guest presenter at an arboretum “Tree Mob” last summer, talking about the mighty oaks. It is smaller in size at 175 acres, but 50 years older than Arnold Arboretum (1882 265 acres, my familiar walking grounds in Boston’s leafy backyard). MOUNT AUBURN was established as America’s first garden cemetery in 1831. (Eupatorium maculatum) & Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) Summer perennials on Willow Pond at Mount Auburn Cemetery:įrom left, Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Joe Pye Weed Burial rituals and life-after-death strategies are fertile grounds for discourse, but I usually visit rural cemeteries for quiet picnics and the simple, sometimes amazing, stories headstones tell. Whatever our persuasions, we live, we die. Human mortality is, of course, harsher than the gardener’s cycle of perennial dormancy & reemergence. With decline, we prepare for the future, cleaning beds, preparing the soil, transplanting and planting. NATURE’S CYCLE of Life, Death & Rebirth is familiar to gardeners. (Above, Pinkshell Azalea fall color at Lake Halcyon, Mount Auburn Cemetery) Perhaps best of all, this is the start of the gaudy season that Albert Camus called the ‘second spring, where every leaf is a flower.’” Scientists have found that activity in the right frontal lobe of the brain – the center of fear and aggression – declines in the fall, while dopamine levels rise and testosterone peaks. Autumn has a reputation for melancholy, but it’s my favorite time of year. “My pace quickens at the turn of the season, and I feel a sense of possibility. ![]() Although we can still enjoy fall color and some bloom, gardeners start preparing for winter. Davis for the Winter 1997 – 1998 issue of Sweet Auburn.As late summer becomes early fall, thoughts turn to decline in the garden. Learn more about the construction of the Eddy Monument in the article “Mary Baker Eddy Memorial” written by Michael R. But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you.” Christ Jesus (John 14:25-26) “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. It is a divine utterance, – the Comforter which leadeth into all truth.” Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health 128:4-6, 127:26-29) It has a spiritual, and not a material origin. Science is an emanation of divine Mind, and is alone able to interpret God aright. “The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man. Text on the tablets to the left and right of the memorial: The Truth he has taught and spoken lives, and moves in our midst a divine afflatus.” Mary Baker Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings 1882 – 1896 166:3-7) “The monument whose finger points upward, commemorates the earthly life of a martyr but this is not all of the philanthropist, hero, and Christian. MARY BAKER EDDY DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES Winslow with excerpts from The Art of Commemoration and America’s First Rural Cemetery: Mount Auburn’s Significant Monument Collection ©2015, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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