Looking after a cemetery is not just the responsibility of the cemetery owners and maintenance staff but rather a community effort because the cemetery represents the community members who came before and paved the way. So when one cemetery was vandalized, local volunteers and churches helped to make it right. The historic Wesleyan Cemetery is the […]
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New Albany’s first cemetery to receive restoration funding
Historic cemeteries are not just locations where ancestors are buried but also act as historical documents of who came before and how each person helped form the society of the local area, state, country, and the world today. And this fact is not lost on The New Albany Cemetery Restoration Advisory Board, who brought to […]
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Canopy-restoration project helping cemetery and community
The Green Lawn Cemetery was founded in 1848, with a majority of its trees being alive prior to Ohio becoming a state, and with the canopy-restoration project in its third year, the cemetery is hoping give their trees an additional 200 years of life. The all-volunteer restoration project started three years ago as an effort to […]
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Technology helps Green high school students preserve cemetery
A group of high school students in Green, OH applied modern technology to assist in preserving a historical cemetery on the April 8 & 9 weekend, thanks in part to a University of Akron Professor. The Klinefelter Cemetery in Green, OH is one of the first cemeteries in the area and is the final resting place for […]
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John Glenn, 1921-2016
In the pantheon of American legends, names such as Babe Ruth, Marilyn Monroe, Andrew Carnegie, Neil Armstrong, and Elvis Presley come to mind as figures who crafted the American landscape for years to come. Today we have people such as Elon Musk, Beyonce, and others who continue to blaze new trails for both America and the […]
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