Mount Auburn Cemetery, the nation's oldest garden cemetery and the model for our modern day parks system.
Join us for the Brown Bay Lunch Series, bring your lunch and enjoy these "lunch and learn" opportunities. Throughout the fall and winter, Mount Auburn staff and volunteers will present an hour long talk to shed light on the lives of those buried here.
Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and the debate over Evolution will be discussed this week. Following Darwin's breakthrough on the theory of evolution in 1859, two of Harvard's learning men of science squared off.
Join us to discuss the history of this conflict, and Gray's research on the plants of eastern Asia that convinced him of Darwin's theories.
