Thanks, UEB, for the link to the Star's editorial on Freedomland Cemetery (see http://www.indystar.com/article.php?editgraveyard24.html ) As most of you realize, there was a big error in that article. Below is the text of the Letter to the Editor that I just sent to the Star: Thank you for your 4/24/2002 editorial, "Graveyard teaches respect for history". I am very familiar with the Freedomland Cemetery in New Albany, IN, a "perpetual" community project of S. Ellen Jones Elementary School students and agree this is an important and valuable venture. There was one important error in your editorial, however, in the statement ". . . but each county has a cemetery commission appointed to fund and oversee maintenance". In actuality, each of Indiana's 92 counties MAY create county cemetery commissions under IC 23-14-67. To my knowledge, only TWENTY counties in the state have cemetery commissions, their status ranging from defunct or inactive to very active and their annual budgets running the gamut from $0 to $30,000 or more. Most cemetery commissions work in conjunction with Township Trustees, who have a statutory responsibility under IC 23-14-68 to care for cemeteries established before 1939 that have no funds for maintenance and on which property taxes are NOT assessed and paid. County cemetery commissions are volunteer positions and often make use of individuals working off community service sentences, inmate labor and civic groups to accomplish their goals of restoring these critically important historic sites. If your readers would like more information, they can visit the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project's website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp. Lois Mauk INPCRP State Coordinator