Amy, As a Redenbaugh cousin, I respectfully ask you to recall our challenge to keep that cemetery free from concrete encased stones. Remember our big fight, some of which was chronicled on this list? Those same reinforced concrete techniques were advised for our Redenbaugh cemetery in Montgomery County. If that had occurred, I don't think we would have a readable stone left. Because we were successful in stopping the concrete mess, and that meant bombarding some school personnel with information about correct vs incorrect restoration, we convinced the school administration to do it right. Helen Wildermuth and Mark Davis carefully pieced back together our fragmented stones, which stand proudly today on the grounds of Southmont High School. There can be no question about what is right. Wrong is (almost) always wrong. Restoration using some not-so-great techniques is not restoration. The people working so hard but so misguidedly in Madison Co need to be educated. Go for it. Sharon At 09:45 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: >First of all, I think you are missing the point. Yes, unfortunatly, they >have been restoring using concrete. We all know it's not a good thing, >but who >are we to judge them when they have spent 6 years restoring a huge >mess. This >is a cemetery that was bulldozed and pushed into a ditch, bodies and all, by >some idiot who lived near there.. .. The Madison Co. Cemetery Commission has >spent all these years working to restore it, after what was done to it, and >they have certainly researched it to full extent. They are very proud of >what >they have accomplished and I think you should be a little more understanding >of the situation before assuming that they are just out there throwing stones >here and there. I know we all wish that every person out there is restoring >the cemeterys up to this group's standards, but let's face it, there are >hundreds of cemeterys needing restoration, and only a few people out there >actually >doing the hard part. So, the choice is, you either restore with some not so >great techniques, or you just ignore it and let the cemetery stay in disarray >until it's finally gone all together. and as for lack of reaction from >this >group, it may be because it was decided awhile ago that this was just a >message board, so many people arn't really getting involved in it anymore. > >Amy Terry >Madison County > > >==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== >This list is for discussion of topics related to the Indiana Pioneer >Cemeteries Restoration Project only. >Please do not send genealogical queries through this list. The surname >and geographic Mailing Lists on Rootsweb at http://lists.rootsweb.com are >a better venue. >Thank you. > > > >__________ NOD32 1.1205 (20050830) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.eset.com