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From: "Sue Silver" <>
Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] California Historic Cemetery Commission - Assembly Bill 1368
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:11:28 -0800

GREETINGS...to all who may have a stake in the future of California's
historic cemeteries,

My name is Sue Silver, and I am the president of the El Dorado County
Pioneer Cemeteries Commission, a non-profit public benefit corporation. Our
goal is for the preservation, protection and restoration of our county's
historic cemeteries.

This is to advise you that Assemblymember Anthony Pescetti has introduced
Assembly Bill 1368 (AB 1368) to establish the California Historic Cemetery
Commission. To read the Bill, go to:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1351-1400/ab_1368_bill_20010223_in
troduced.html

(If this link fails, go to the California State Assembly web site and click
on Legislation. At the next screen, search on 1368, and follow links from
there.)

Assemblymember Pescetti introduced and ushered this same bill (as AB 1779)
through the last session of the legislature where it was extremely well
received by members of both houses of the Legislature. Unfortunately,
Governor Gray Davis vetoed in the last hours of the session. We are hopeful
that this year we will see it's enactment.

I am asking for your support in helping to pass this legislation. This is a
Bill that will benefit anyone who has any ancestors buried anywhere in any
historic California cemetery. It is a way and means to document the
historic cemeteries state wide, and to build a registry of those places so
that they may be kept from harms way.

California has had a dismal history when it comes to its treatment of
cemeteries. From the earliest years of statehood, cemeteries were being
relocated to accomodate mining activities. In the 1950's, we saw a movement
of cemeteries to accomodate dams and reservoirs. In the latter part of the
20th Century, we began to see them uprooted for highways and residential
developments.

At this rate, the historic cemeteries of the communities founded by our
ancestors, similar to some of the now-gone towns and villages, will fade
from the face of our historic landscape. And along with them, the humanity
and history they represent.

I urge you to contact Assemblymember Pescetti to thank him for introducing
this Bill and to lend your voice of support. Email him at:



or write to him at:

Honorable Anthony Pescetti
California State Assembly
State Capitol, Room 2130
Sacramento, CA 95814

or call him at: (916) 319-2010

BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS ON ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO
LEGISLATORS.

You might wish to copy Governor Gray Davis on your email, and his address
is:



Please help find, save and preserve our state's historic cemeteries and
grave yards. They are the first textbooks of the people who lived and died
in California.

Thank you in advance for your concern and support. If you can help identify
the location of obscure or "left behind" cemeteries in your county, please
let me know.

Sue Silver

El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission
2551 Deer Trail Lane
Cameron Park, CA 95682

Member, California Historic Cemetery Alliance (CHCA)
email:
Web Page: califhistcemeteries.org

(This is the second send of this email. Delete if you have already received
it. Thank you.)

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