For those of you who don't subscribe to "The Iowan" magazine, I thought I'd tell you about an article in the March/April 2009 issue. There is a story entitled "Gone But Not Forgotten, Resurrecting Iowa's Stone Cities." It's a great story about a group of volunteers and members of Cemetery Commissions in various counties who restore old Iowa forgotten cemeteries. The article features photos of stone markers restored in the old Van Buren Cemetery in Jackson County. Volunteers even use "dowsing" to find where the graves are located and then work to piece together and reconstruct the broken headstones. Volunteers also use county and church records to identify those buried in the cemeteries. It's great to know that folks are taking an interest in restoring these old historical burying grounds. The story relates that, since being restored by volunteers, the Old Springbrook Methodist cemetery has 40 standing monuments. Good job Iowans! Mona Sarratt Knight