Sue,
Thank you for sending your letter to the Indy Star. You always take time out
of your busy schedule for us. I appreciate it so much.
Sincerely,
Angela Tielking
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Silver" <ssilver1951(a)jps.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Central State graves found
Just sent this letter to the editor at the IndyStar...Sue Silver
"Re: Central State graves found;
Discovery won't derail city's purchase
Editor:
The attitude of those involved with this project as written in this
article
that if construction crews come across bones and they are determined
to be
human, the DNR will be noticed is nearly comical. They KNOW it's a
cemetery! Of course the remains/bones will be human.
The State of Indiana is fortunate to have an organization working under
the
name of the Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project (INPCRP).
Had
anyone bothered to inquire of this group (they have a website), I am
absolutely certain someone in the group would have informed the city of
the
cemetery's existence.
In California, our early state hospital/asylum cemeteries were also "left
behind" as the world progressed. Two years ago, the state enacted
legislation that will enable present-day institution inmates and
volunteers
to restore many of those cemeteries. This is what should be done for
this
Indiana institution cemetery.
Wasn't it bad enough those who rest in this graveyard were
institutionalized
and berated in life? Wouldn't it be best to remember them as
they once
were - pioneers and others who perhaps in their better days, made day to
day
contributions to life in Indiana and honor them accordingly?
The INPCRP is highly recognized and watched in the cemetery preservation
community. I monitor their email list discussions from California.
Others
do also. We are all watching and waiting for one of our state's
to take
the
lead in recognizing that our historic-era cemeteries and their
occupants
should be and must be treated as they were intended - with respect,
reverence and dignity.
Sincerely,
Sue Silver, State Coordinator
California Saving Graves
Website:
www.usgennet.org/ca/usa/state
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lois Mauk" <Lois(a)divorceinkentucky.com>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:35 AM
Subject: [INPCRP] Central State graves found
> Central State graves found
> Discovery won't derail city's purchase
>
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/9/061738-6339-102.html
>
>
> ==== INPCRP Mailing List ====
> THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
> "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
> are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
> undisguised. This is a cemetery.
> "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
> historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
> "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
> in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
> not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
> memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
> "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
> yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
> exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
> --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union,
IA
>
==== INPCRP Mailing List ====
Quote from William Gladstone (1809-1897), three-time Prime Minister of
England
and Victorian contemporary of Benjamin Disraeli:
"Show me the manner in which a nation or community
cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical
exactness the tender mercies of its people, their
respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty
to high ideals."