May I suggest that you also contact all of your service organizations in that area and ask
for assistance - from the American Legion to the Knights of Columbus, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts and church groups. Making it a community project gives everyone a vested interest,
and also gives you "helping hands." If you need chain saws to cut trees, tell
them to bring some, work gloves and lots of water-brown bag lunch and make it a festive
occasion. Once the glut of downed trees, tall grass, and other debris is removed, then
they can work on repairing stones and perhaps then only those more experienced will fell
comfortable doing that work, but?it will give everyone a sense of reclaiming that eyesore
and turning it into a thing they can take pride in. It may take more than 2 days, but once
the?project begins, others tend to want to join. I know it has been successful here in our
town of less than 2300 people (mostly older people) and we have 12 cemeteries to care
for.
I wish you the best.
Judy Tripp-Neu
Deputy Town Historian
Town of Springwater, NY
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Lingeman Cemetery Restoration Project (L.A. Clugh)
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From: "L.A. Clugh" <LAClugh(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Lingeman Cemetery Restoration Project
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Wish you all the luck in the world lady.
I am taking my mother to her reunion in Salem area or
I would join you.
Take lots of photos to share.
la
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From: "Jessica Felix" <jlfelix24(a)yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:09 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Lingeman Cemetery Restoration Project
Hello everyone!
I will be heading up a huge project this weekend (June 13th and 14th) and am
in
over my head! With the help of three volunteer groups and individual
community
members (including Larry Tippin--thank you!!) I will be leading the
full
restoration of Lingeman Cemetery near Brownsburg in Hendricks County. This
cemetery has been an eyesore for decades due to vandalism and fallen trees.
Only a few of the 100 stones are standing and almost half are broken at least
once. There is a lot of interest in this cemetery from neighbors, the
community and descendants, which is the reason why I finally agreed to take it
on as a project.
I would like to extend an invitation to anyone interested in helping out,
especially some of you experienced restorationists. Since we are attempting
to
finish the bulk of the work in two days, we can use all the help we
can get!
The project is June 13/14 from approximately 9am to 4pm each day. Come for an
hour, come both days, whatever you can do. No notification is
required, just
show up! Detailed directions and map are on my Hendricks County INCPRP page,
but basically the cemetery is just a couple blocks SW of the i
ntersection of
267 and 136. It is on Washington Street (only goes west off of 267)
and is
hard to miss. For more information, email me at jlfelix24(a)yahoo.com.
Thanks!
Jess Felix
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