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cemeteries of “a certain age” become unkempt.
“It is our legacy” to restore them, he said. “We have to protect history”
In particular, he said, he likes to involve kids in the project. “It lets you ‘live’ the history a little bit.”
As well, passers-by often drop in and check out the work he does. “Everywhere I go to do projects like this, people stop in and see what’s going on,” Hough said. “And every time, someone will give me a nugget of information that helps tie the thing together. Like Melvin Poe here. He’s adding parts to this story that we wouldn’t have known otherwise.”
Neighbor Frank Chapin stopped in to see what was going on at Foe’s Rim. After he heard of the relevance of vinca, he invited Hough to take a look at an outcrop of the vine on his Grunkle Farm just up the road. “That’s my next project,” Hough said with a grin. “I think it’s an even earlier cemetery,” one that was even closer to disappearing.
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