It's frustrating, when you visit a cemetery or burial ground to look at a few specific headstones only to find them covered in lichen, moss, or other discolourations from processes like acid rain. Maybe the stone you are interested in are sunken a little, and those crucial last few lines are obscured by the soil.… Continue reading Illegible Gravestones & Cleaning Damage: Wire, Chalk, & Shovels
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Repair Problems & Damage in the Wild
We recently visited the Protestant Cemetery in St. John's, NL, to take a look at the condition of the site in general, and get an idea of where work needs to be potentially done in the future. It's still fairly winter-like here in Newfoundland, so Ian and I joked that we should have brought our… Continue reading Repair Problems & Damage in the Wild
Black Cat Cemetery Preservation 