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Gravestone Restoration Workshop
Join Ghlee Woodworth and Jonathan Appell on October 24 and 25 when they will embark upon the lofty goal of training and mobilizing volunteers to preform basic preservation procedures to continue to restore and maintain Newburyport's historic Old Hill Burying Ground. - Newburyport Today, October 22, 2009
Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery hosts renowned visitor
A leading expert in gravestone restoration and repair makes his way to Coos Bay on Monday to hold a special workshop at a local historic cemetery. A large group turned out for the all day workshop held at the Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery in Coos Bay. - KCBY News, August 10, 2009
A grave situation Town plans repair of damaged burial ground
Many lie in pieces, their stone stories broken, cracked, and showing their age. Some of the most historic stones at Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry are in need of repair as the town prepares to take on a burial ground project to spring new life into some of the town's oldest graves. - Derry News, August 6, 2009
Gravestone Restoration at Traditional Building Skills Institute (TBSI) at Snow College, Ephraim
Participants in this workshop will learn many of the various aspects of gravestone and cemetery preservation. Participants are encouraged to bring photographs of historic masonry, sculptures, or gravestones that they have concerns or questions about. - Utah Heritage Foundation, Aug 05, 2009
Breathing New Life Into Montana's Cemeteries
Montana has thousands of historic cemeteries in need of repair and maintenance, and on Friday, a nationally known gravestone and cemetery care expert held a workshop at the Benton Avenue Cemetery in Helena to share his special knowledge. - KFBB News Channel 5, August 1, 2009
S.W. Mo. residents learn to restore gravestones
Wearing a bright pink blouse, Carolyn Pearl of Kansas City North stood out in the crowd as she knelt in the wet grass to help scrub a tiny headstone during a workshop at Mount Memorial Cemetery on the William Jewell College campus. “It was nice to be able to clean a stone that belonged to a baby girl,” Pearl said. “It’s such a respectful act.” - Liberty Tribune, July 30, 2009
Monumental makeover
As the years have gone by, Willia Sloan Parkinson’s gravestone has sunk. Situated on the extreme south side of the Logan cemetery, the 109-year-old gravestone has been a victim of a pool of water that regularly collects nearby and the typical settling to which most grave sites are subjected. - The Herald Journal, July 25, 2009
S.W. Mo. residents learn to restore gravestones
The Squibb Cemetery west of Springfield holds the family histories of the Roses, Redfearns, Mobleys, Leepers, Squibbs and more. But that history is often hard to decipher. In a scene repeated in old family cemeteries around the country, many of the gravestones are worn with age, broken or fallen over. - USA Today, July 25, 2009
UPDATE: Vandalism spurs action, reward
A reward for information leading to the arrest of vandals responsible for heavily damaging dozens of tombstones in the oldest section of Fairview Cemetery has increased to $4,000. - Liberty Tribune, July 15, 2009
Jonathan Appell conducts gravestone preservation workshop
Most people visit a cemetery to mourn for a loved one or friend, but few people really think about the condition of cemeteries. For Jonathan Appell, a cemetery's condition is very important. - Cleveland News Sun, July 14, 2009
Gravestone Preservation
Gravestone conservator Jonathan Appell of West Hartford, Connecticut,
spent a week at Decatur Cemetery in early April repairing
several gravestones in the historic section. Most notable was the
19th century box tomb of Miss Emily Pirrman, c onsidered the cornerstone of preservation efforts by Friends of Decatur Cemetery/
Decatur Preservation Alliance. - Decatur Cemetery News, June 2009
Ritual of Restoration:
Cemetery conservation workshop teaches simple, easy steps to revitalizing
damaged headstones
They seem solid and imposing — built to last forever.
But gravestones can actually become fragile over time and require
a gentle touch if they are to remain as silent sentinels of history.
With the help of Jonathan Appell, 20 people from across the state
learned Friday and Saturday how to breathe new life into damaged,
dirty or decaying headstones.
from the State Port Pilot - November 12, 2008
Experts help preserve history
through cemetery restoration
Roderick Donald, archaeologist with the Office of State Archaeology,
scrubs a grave marker Friday at the Brunswick Town Fort Anderson
State Historic Site. The North Carolina Cemetery Survey and Stewardship
Program and the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
held a Cemetery Conservation Workshop. The workshop focused on proper
methods for cleaning, restoring and resetting gravestones and featured
cemetery restoration expert Jon Appell.
from Star News Online - November 11, 2008
Basic
Gravestone Restoration Workshop Castine, Maine
On Saturday August 16, a small but interested group of 5 living
souls collected in the Castine Cemetery to receive instruction on
gravestone restoration from Jonathan Appell, an independent gravestone
conservator from Connecticut. The workshop was organized by Brian
Adams of the Wilson museum. A specific stone, belonging to Robert
Perkins, was the demonstration subject. The Perkins family were
early settlers of the town, wealthy and prominent in their day,
but their gravestones, like most of the other stones in the "pioneer
section" of the cemetery, currently need a lot of "T L
C." The museum chose a broken Perkins stone because the museum's
buildings, originally built by a Perkins, also are situated on land
once owned by the Perkins family.
from The Association for Gravestone Studies - August 16, 2008
Grave
Subject: Class Tutored on Restoring Markers
The gravestone of Roswell Davis,
a War of 1812 veteran, was found lying face-down in a ditch on the
edge of Bishop Cemetery over the weekend.
The Watertown Daily Times - July 28, 2008
PRESERVING GRAVESTONES HENDERSON WORKSHOPS: CONSERVATOR TO TRAIN PARTICIPANTS ON FIX-UP METHODS
Bishop Cemetery has seen better days. Nearly every headstone is either tilted, broken or covered with a thick sheen of lichen, rendering them unreadable.
"Like all the other cemeteries, it needs work," said Eric C. Anderson, Henderson town historian. A difference between this cemetery and many of the other small cemeteries is that it will get that much needed attention this summer.
The Watertown Daily Times - June 13, 2008
CEMETERY CONSERVATION WORKSHOP SET IN HENDERSON IN JULY
HENDERSON -- The town of Henderson is sponsoring a two-day cemetery conservation workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 26, and Sunday, July 27, in Bishop Cemetery at the intersection of Ayles and Shear roads in the town of Henderson.
The Watertown Daily Times - May 30, 2008
Help Protect Nine Mile Canyon
A massive proposed oil and gas development project would cause irreparable damage to Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, home to one of the most important and extensive collections of prehistoric rock art panels in the world.
Nicknamed the “world's longest art gallery” because of its more than 10,000 individual petroglyphs and pictographs made primarily by the Fremont and Ute Indian cultures, the Canyon was included on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of America's Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places in 2004.
Help Save the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery
"It's hard to believe, but officials at Arlington National Cemetery plan to replace the original Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with a new replica solely because of repairable cosmetic imperfections. This 1932 monument is nationally significant and eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places."
Cadbury's Graveyard Stunt Falls Flat
As a marketing promotion, it seemed like a splendid idea: hide a coin worth $10,000 in a well-known place, and tantalise treasure hunters by offering the finder a chance to win up to another $1m. But even the most well intentioned public relations plans sometimes come a cropper, and yesterday Cadbury Schweppes was forced to apologise for its "tasteless" stunt.
The Gaurdian- Richard Luscomb- February 26, 2007
Fury as Churchyards Bar the Dead
Families face extra bills as some vicars are accused of saying they're full to save money.
The Observer- David Smith- April 4, 2004
Of Grave Importance
The only way to protect the places of the dead from desecration is to reclaim them for the living.
The Gaurdian- Rose George- August 19, 2004
Review to Consider Reusing Graves
A major new government review of burial law will ask today if human remains should be exhumed so grave plots can be reused.
The Gaurdian Unlimited- Press Association- January 15, 2004
