Brad, Is this what you were telling me about last week? Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Regan-Dinius, Jeannie" <JRdinius@dnr.state.in.us> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: [INPCRP] Department of Veterans Affairs Looking for Volunteers > I got this press release in the mail and thought the project might interest > some on the list. > > Jeannie Regan-Dinius > Cemetery Registry Coordinator > Department of Natural Resources > Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology > 317/232-1646 > 317/232-0693 (fax) > 402 W. Washington Street RM W274 > Indianapolis, IN 46204-2739 > > > > > The National Cemetery Administration (NCA), part of the Department of > Veterans Affairs (VA), and Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!), are partnering to > undertake an exciting new project to inventory and document for the first > time an estimated 300 major monuments dedicated to fallen soldiers. > > NCA is a Federal agency with jurisdiction over 153 cemetery properties in 42 > states and Puerto Rico, including national cemeteries and affiliated > soldiers', Government, and Confederate lots. Burials at more than two-thirds > of these properties date to the Civil War or earlier, when they were > administered by the U.S. Army. SOS! is part of Heritage Preservation, a > non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and care of many types > of historic resources, and it has more than 10 years' experience in > volunteers' survey of outdoor sculpture nationwide. > > The monuments are located in more than 100 NCA cemetery properties across > the country. NCA will provide volunteers with inventory forms and > instructions, cemetery maps, and 35mm film. Volunteers should be comfortable > taking photographs and measurements, and performing some basic research; > they will be responsible for supplying their own 35mm camera, the cost of > film development, and personal transportation. > > The monument- inventory project starts in spring 2002, with data collection > to be completed by September 2002. Volunteers will have several months to > complete the work-whether it's a survey of one monument or several. Upon > completion of the project, the information will be publicly accessible > on-line through another SOS! partner, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. > > Interested in volunteering, or know someone who might be? To sign up or > learn more about the project, visit our website at http://www.cem.va.pov. > Please contact us at one of the addresses below to indicate your interest in > participating in the memorials inventory. > > nca.memorials@mail.va.gov or OR Sara Amy Leach, Historian > National Cemetery Administration > Department of Veterans Affairs > 810 Vermont Ave., NW (402B4) > Washington, DC 20420 > > The deadline for contacting NCA to volunteer is May 8, 2002. > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Please do not send queries through this list. > >