Mount Auburn Cemetery
Rie Macchiarolo currently serves as the Director of Ornamental Horticulture at Mount Auburn Cemetery, a position held since March 2023. Prior experience includes roles as an Ecological Field Technician at Parterre Ecological from April 2020 to March 2023, and as a Design & Project Manager at Green City Growers from May 2015 to April 2020. Additionally, Rie worked as an Outreach Coordinator for the Environmental and Transportation Planning Division of the City of Cambridge from March 2015 to December 2016. Rie is a graduate of The Conway School of Landscape Design, holding a Master of Science in Ecological Design, and also obtained a Certificate in Permaculture Design from Phipps Conservatory. An academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Prior to focusing on ecological design, Rie served as the Director of Community Homes at Lifesteps, Inc. from September 2009 to August 2013.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Mount Auburn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior, recognizing it as one of the country's most significant cultural landscapes. Founded in 1831, it was the first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the United States. Today its beauty, historical associations and horticultural collections are internationally renowned. Our founders believed that burying and commemorating the dead was best done in a tranquil and beautiful natural setting at a short distance from the city center. They also believed that the Cemetery should be a place for the living, "embellishing" the natural landscape with ornamental plantings, monuments, fences, fountains and chapels. This inspired concept was copied widely throughout the United States, giving birth to the rural cemetery movement and the tradition of garden cemeteries. Their popularity led, in turn, to the establishment of America's public parks.