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CEMETERY CONSERVATION WORKSHOP SET IN HENDERSON IN JULY

HENDERSON -- The town of Henderson is sponsoring a two-day cemetery conservation workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 26, and Sunday, July 27, in Bishop Cemetery at the intersection of Ayles and Shear roads in the town of Henderson.

Jonathan Appell owner of New England Cemetery Services, West Hartford, Conn., will lead the workshop. Mr. Appell is a gravestone conservator who performs gravestone conservation training workshops and cemetery conservation projects across the United States. He is a board member of the Association for Gravestone Studies and is chairman of this year's AGS annual gravestone conservation workshop in Amherst, Mass. For more information about his business visit his Web sites, www.gravestoneconservation.com and www.gravestonepreservation.info.

The workshop will include explanation of correct preservation procedures and treatments, discussion of different types of stone and problems associated with them, learn how to clean gravestones, demonstration of basic gravestone resetting, gravestone adhesive repair, infilling to replace lost or damaged stone, and discussions of subject matter relating to historic stones.

Registration is $100 per person and will be limited to the first 20 people. The workshop is organized and hosted by Eric C. Anderson, Henderson town historian. To reserve a spot, contact Mr. Anderson at hendersonhist@yahoo.com or call 938-5183.

Republished from the Watertown Daily Times. Copyright, 2008, Johnson Newspaper Corporation

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