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From: "GTielking" <>
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Cemetery tours
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:44:18 -0500
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Kyle,

I think this is a great idea. I think it shows people that these folks
buried in our cemeteries were alive and well just like we are now.

We are going to do a cemetery tour in Henry Co. hopefully this spring or
summer. Bud Bush and I will be working with the historical society and have
reenactors portray individuals in the cemetery. We also want to include this
in our cemetery education program with school children.

I don't know why some feel this is improper. I think it is a celebration of
the people's lives who rest in our cemeteries; and that we have not
forgotten them. Let me know how it goes.

Angela Tielking
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Subject: [INPCRP] Cemetery tours


> This is kinda off topic, so maybe replies should be sent to me privately,
but
> I'm curious if anyone can help me.
>
> Our historical society is wanting to organize a cemetery tour this spring
or
> summer in the cemetery that I am secretary for. I think this is a great
idea
> and it has a lot of support. (and a few who feel this is not proper) I'm
> just interested to correspond with others that have done this and get some
ideas
> of how to go about this. We're planning on having people act the part of
8 or
> 10 various pioneers and/or prominent people who are buried in the
cemetery.
> Seems to me something like this is done in Lafayette or nearby...maybe
L.A.
> can help me.
>
> If we can pull it off the first time, it will be a regular event held at
> different cemeteries each year.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
>
> ==== INPCRP Mailing List ====
> THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
> "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
> are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
> undisguised. This is a cemetery.
> "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
> historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
> "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
> in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
> not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
> memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
> "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
> yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
> exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
> --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA
>

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