laporteDEADLINE FOR THE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS JUNE 8th.
any questions? Email
Hollyjen(a)csinet.net
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject:
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Cemetery Restoration Workshop
Sponsored by
the Indiana Historical Society and the La Porte County Pioneer Cemetery Commission
June 16, 2001 - La Porte, IN
Morning Session: Held at the La Porte County Complex, Meeting Rooms 2 & 3, 809 State
Street, at North side of the Courthouse
Afternoon Session: Miller-Griffin Cemetery, St. Road 2 East
8:00-8:15 ~ Registration
8:15-8:30 ~ Welcome and Introduction Katherine Dill, Indiana Historical Society and Holly
Jenks, President, La Porte County Pioneer Cemetery Commission
8:30-8:45 ~ Responsibilities of the County Marlow Harmon, President, La Porte County
Commissioners
8:45-9:00 ~ La Porte County Grave Registration and County Veteran Organizations Ron
Stallings, President, La Porte County Grave Registry
9:00-9:30 ~ Indiana Cemetery Registry Jeannie Regan-Dinius, Cemetery Registry Coordinator,
Department of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
9:30-10:00 ~ Citizens' Efforts: CCCPC and INPCRP Community Resources:Sheriff and
Inmate Labor Crews; Lois Mauk, President, Clark Co. Cemetery Preservation Committee
(CCPC); State Coordinator, Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project (INPCRP)
10:00-10:15 ~ Break
10:15-10:45 ~ Community Resources; Community Service Workers Establishing a County Pioneer
Cemetery Commission
10:45-12:15 ~ Restoration and Repair
Lois Mauk
· Property Ownership Research
· Stone Cleaning and Poulticing
John Walters, Fayette County Cemetery Supervisor
· Stone Repair Techniques: Knowing What to Do
Holly Jenks
· Site Cleaning
12:15-12:45 ~ Lunch
12:45-4:00 Hands-on Stone Cleaning, Reading, and Repair Demonstrations by Lois Mauk
Headstone Readings by Local Residents of La Porte
Headstone Repairs by John Walters
ADVANCE REGISTRATION: For those people who want to register for the workshop now, please
have them send cash or a check to the following address: Indiana Historical Society, Local
History Services, PO Box 664118, Indianapolis, IN 46266-4118. Also, include the following
information about yourself: Name, address, phone, e-mail address. Cite any dietary
restrictions registrants may have, and that the workshop will be for the Cemetery
Preservation Workshop.
FEE: $20 for non-members of IHS and $15 for members of either the IHS or LaPorte Co.
Pioneer Cemetery Commission.
For additional information contact Holly Jenks, President, LaPorte Co.Pioneer Cemetery
Commission
Hollyjen(a)csinet.net
Holly, if I have a clear schedule I plan on coming to the workshop. We
have tentatively made plans to go to some friends of ours who are
elderly and they live up near Flint, MI. If the weather is bad we
probably will not go. I am hoping to make the LaPorte day, really.
Thanks for the reminder. Peg