Stone Conservation & Preservation
June through August 26
Saturdays, 8am – 12pm
If you can brush your teeth, you can clean a gravestone!"
– Adrian, Conservation Captain
If your passion is fixing stuff and digging really big holes, this is your chance to get started. We'll cover the basics of our conservation efforts aimed at keeping headstones and monuments legible and upright for decades (centuries?) to come and do so using methods safe for you and for the stones. Long pants, sturdy shoes, work gloves and sunscreen recommended. (We have sunscreen and bug repellent, too.)
Email us today to be on the list and get notified to get the up-to-the-moment status on the conservation schedule. We'd love ot have your join our team!
See how we work on stones and what happens on a typical workday.
We are also looking for volunteers to work on our orphan stone project. This involves documenting and cataloguing the pieces of stones we have found that are now stacked in the shed and then storing them on racks in the receiving tomb. It could be done outside under a tent on nice days or inside the Dead House. (It's possible that this could become all or part of our weekday conservation day.)