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| Crews fix up city graves |
| By Rutland Herald |
| Published: 10/10/2008 |
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VERMONT - With the help of work crews from the state Department of Corrections, one of Rutland's older cemeteries, and the resting place of some of the area's earliest residents, is slowly being restored. On Thursday, work in the West Street Cemetery, which has included debris removal, mowing and digging up and resetting stones that had fallen flat, continued with the replacement of four Revolutionary War veterans' headstones. "It still needs a lot of work, but it looks a thousand times better than when we started," said Thomas Giffin, one of the city's cemetery commissioners and the president of the Vermont Old Cemetery Association. Three men assigned to the detail on work crews as a furlough condition helped to dig out the old, damaged stones and position the new ones Thursday afternoon. They were joined in the dirty work by Giffin and fellow cemetery commissioner Christopher Book. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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