Easter is here this Sunday, April 9th, 2023, and soon afterward a Season of Spring Cemetery Preservation Workshops will start in earnest in Ohio stretching through the months of Summer and early Autumn.
From all indications of recent Spring to Fall seasons, cemetery preservation workshops have become increasingly popular among those who seek to learn more about taking clearer photographs of grave marker inscriptions to probing for buried markers and more. Advancing to properly cleaning, repairing, and resetting a variety grave markers and monuments from ground supported tablets to those in slotted bases all the way up to re-erecting multi-piece monuments, including obelisks.
The learning may mean taking a one-day class at a cemetery to attending a multi-day presentation to gain a better sense of what it takes to actually accomplish the Do No Harm Methods as put forth by the NCPTT / National Center for Preservation Technology and Training of the NPS / National Park Service.
Some have pursued learning this work and turned it into a part-time or even full-time business working in Ohio and beyond the Buckeye State's borders.
Cemetery preservation is a pursuit that has come unto its own akin to the rise in popularity of learning more about your DNA results as a natural follow-up to years of conducting genealogical research.
So it is that Ohio is seeing more cemetery preservation workshops during the fair weather seasons.
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In May, 2023 -- May 20th and May 21st in Canfield, Mahoning County a workshop is being planned that will feature Tim Foor of Hallowed Ground Cemetery Preservation LLC as the instructor.
More details will be posted here soon in an upcoming separate post.
