What: Join PBK Boston for a walking tour of the Mount Auburn Cemetery, founded in 1831 and a study of art and nature in balance. Explore 190 years of changing ideas about life and death through the 45,000 examples of funerary art found within its 175 acres and the works of art that this landscape has inspired.

From the website: Mount Auburn was born of a vision for a cemetery in a natural landscape that would comfort and inspire visitors. The original embodiment of “garden cemetery” in America, Mount Auburn’s founding was intentional – an innovative purpose and design brought to life for the benefit of all.

Nearly two centuries later, the landscape of Mount Auburn Cemetery – plants, trees, water, topography, monuments, structures and habitats – remains both foundation and touchstone for everything we do. The ever-changing combination and layering of natural and manmade elements touch everyone who comes to the Cemetery. https://www.mountauburn.org/ 

When:  SUNDAY, April 27th, 2025, 2:00-4:00 PM

1:30 to 2:00 PM – Gather at The Visitors Center, located in Story Chapel, staffed daily between 9 AM and 4:30 PM. Self-serve visitor materials, public restrooms, and water are also available from the Visitors Center whenever the grounds are open to the public.

2 to 3:30 PM – Walk as a group through the Mount Auburn Cemetery focusing on highlights of interest.

Afterwards, let’s meet at the Sofra restaurant, 1 Belmont Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (just up Mount Auburn Street from the cemetery)

Where:

1:30 to 2 pm: Gather at the Visitor’s Center, just inside the 580 Mount Auburn Street gates.

After the tour: Sofra at 1 Belmont Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (0.3 mile from 580 Mount Auburn Street) for Middle Eastern sweets and savory bites

You can make contact through the Discord app, linked below, or text board member-at-large Gabe Ciociola at 857-222-7727 or Thomas Laage at 617 484-9995.

Please RSVP via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pbk-boston-tour-of-the-mount-auburn-cemetery-cambridge-ma-tickets-1298752677219?aff=oddtdtcreator   

Please ask any questions to thomas@pbkboston.org  or to tlaage@hotmail.com

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