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    1. Advanced Cemetery Preservation Workshop
    2. Corrie Cook
    3. Assembling the Pieces of History: Advanced Hands-On Cemetery Restoration Workshop Saturday, August 19; 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Location: White Chapel Cemetery, Hamilton County, Indiana This full-day workshop will focus on advanced cemetery restoration techniques. Topics covered will include fixing simple breaks, resetting obelisks, determining the original location of a stone once it's been moved, and how to mix stone dust to fill in cracks. Most of the workshop will be spent in the cemetery, where participants will gain valuable hands-on experience repairing stones. Participants must have attended one of the Indiana Historical Society's Basic Cemetery Preservation workshops or have prior cemetery preservation experience. Photos from previous workshops and a downloadable registration brochure are available at http://www.indianahistory.org/lhs/workshops.html Contact Corrie E. Cook (317.233.8913 or ccook@indianahistory.org) for more information. Sponsored by the Local History Services Department, Indiana Historical Society, and the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

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