Jessica, This sounds like a great project. Will you need adult volunteers to work with the students? Will the Township Trustee who is responsible for the cemetery pick up the cost of some cleaning supplies? The Trustee is certainly getting a good deal with the free labor. If the cemetery has not been added to the Indiana Pioneer Cemetery and Burial Ground Registry, your class could complete the survey sheets. Contact Jeanie Regan-Dinius of the DNR division of Historic Preservation and Archeology for info. There is some grant money available through the DNR-DHPA. Jeanie can tell you if the project would qualify for that. [email protected] Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana and the Indiana Humanities Council sponsor Heritage Preservation Education Grants. You can check these out at www.historiclandmarks.org/help/grants/.html or www.ihc4u.org/hpeg.htm The Indana Historical Society has educational material available that may help with research. www.indianahistory.org Rhonda Stoffer, LA Clugh, and others on this list have done similar projects, so maybe you will hear from them. Theresa Berghoff Jessica Felix <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, I've been reading this for awhile now, but this is my first time posting. I wondered if anyone had any suggestions or resources for me. I teach junior high art in southern Hendricks County. I also like to do cemetery work in my free time (although with a one year old...not much free time lately!). I've gotten approval to take some of my 8th graders to a local pioneer cemetery and do some cleaning and resetting. Beforehand they will be listening to guest speakers, doing research on the families in the cemetery, and typing up all their findings. At the end we'd like to put that all together with digital pictures and burn CDs of the info. I'm now wondering about funding. Right now we'll just be using my limited supplies (art teachers don't get paid much) and digital camera. It'd be nice to get some money for this community service for our supplies, maybe some digital cameras for the art department, and possibly a sign for the cemetery. The principal would also like me to continue doing this three times a year with each group of art students. Anyone have any ideas of people to contact for support? Grants that could be applied for? Anyone with special knowledge that would make a great guest speaker? It's a township owned cemtery, most burials from 1850-1870, was an old Quaker Friends meeting hall, structure is now gone, being mowed by the township trustee but that's it, stones are in really bad shape, I saw about 100 stones above ground--there's supposed to be over 200 graves. Sorry--I know this is long. I just know most of you have great ideas and contacts! Thanks! Jessica Felix Roachdale, IN __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== Visit the INPCRP on the web at http://www.inpcrp.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!