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From: "David Calame" <>
Subject: Re: [TX-Cem] Reason for non enforcement
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:52:40 -0600
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So..let's ban together and get it done...who's game ?
David Calame, Sr.
Devine, Texas
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>
> Laws have to be effective, if they aren't, delete them and rewrite
> them. These might can be amended to get the desired affect but I don't
> think so.
>
> Ron
>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, it sounds like we have all the laws we need -- but they won't be
> > enforced until more people care about it.
> >
> > I know this suggestion won't be a silver bullet. But it might help. I
fear
> > our association may have inadvertently helped create the apathy. We
have
> > tried to get as much publicity as possible in the area around our
cemetery.
> > Our goal was to reach descendants we didn't know about. So we have had
> > several features in local papers.
> >
> > In reading Ron's email, it dawned on me that our cutsy little "success
story"
> > articles (i.e., Old Cemetery is Saved"), in combination with others
like it,
> > may be giving the wrong impression. To the casual reader uninvolved in
the
> > effort, it may seem as though preservation efforts are going well.
> >
> > Perhaps we should be trying to get an equal amount of publicity (local
> > newspapers, TV stations, etc) for the ones that have been lost forever
due to
> > benign neglect, intentional demolition, or whatever.
> >
> > Maybe we could get a small team together in each county to collect this
type
> > of information. Then we could let interested groups (such as ours,
GenWebs,
> > etc.) know who to contact when they find a destroyed cemetery. The team
in
> > each county could then try to get as much publicity as possible about
each
> > one. And they could compile alot of data to boot.
> >
> > Maybe it would make a difference if the public began to get evidence
that
> > this is a very time-critical battle that is being lost!
> >
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