Entertainment

Hear Authors Speak, Enjoy a Meal from Stellina at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery

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This week, the Mount Auburn Cemetery will celebrate a new book about the historic cemetery, and attendees can stay for a meal prepared by Stellina Restaurant. The cemetery released the following preview:

Once again the focus of Author’s Night is a topic near and dear to the hearts of many local residents, particularly those from Watertown and Cambridge. Join us on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 6:30 p.m. as Author’s Night presents a talk and discussion of the recently released book “Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery”. This book celebrates Mount Auburn Cemetery with a collection of essays, poems and photographs by some emanate Boston personalities, including Mayor Ray Flynn, sports personality Upton Bell, lawyer Alan Dershowitz and authors Megan Marshall and Hank Phillippi Ryan (both 2015 Author’s Night guest speakers!)

“…and this is the first collection of photographs and stories about this final resting place of poets and war heroes, Harvard professors and religious figures, that also captures the wonders of the wildlife that inhabit it.”

Police/Fire

Mt. Auburn Cemetery Evacuated While Police Searched for Suicidal Man

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Police evacuated Mount Auburn Cemetery after receiving a report that there was a man threatening to commit suicide inside, but the search did not locate anyone. The call came in at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday evening, said Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn. “We got information from a third party caller (forwarded from State Police) about a suicidal man inside the cemetery by the Charles River,” Lawn said. “We ended up evacuating Mount Auburn Cemetery, but we found nothing.” Watertown Police were joined by Cambridge Police officers and Massachusetts State Police troopers in the search of the cemetery, which lies in Watertown and Cambridge.

Around Town

Vacation Garden Campers Explore the Trees of Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Children at the Church of the Good Shepherd’s Vacation Garden Camp have been learning about nature, and what better place to do so than a place that boasts 5,000 trees – Mount Auburn Cemetery. On Tuesday, a group of campers took a tour of the cemetery from Mount Auburn Cemetery President Dave Barnett. The cemetery, which was created in 1831 and has over 700 species of trees. Barnett told the group of 14 junior counselors to look at the differences in the trees – such as the Norway Maple which has a trunk about 20 feet high before the first branches and the big, smooth leaves of the magnolia. The weeping beech appealed to many of the kids, with its branches that drape down and form a shaded open area inside.