Here is another example of a cemetery's dismal neglected past can become a future landmark of beauty and history: Ref. The HERALD, Everett, WA. Date: Wed July 16, 2003 Section: Local Site: http://www.heraldnet.com/about Article: Past speaks to the future By Victor Balta, Herald Writer "We hope to open a little window of history for people and to make it a little interesting," says Dale Hoggins, an Edmonds Memorial Cemetery board member. Accompanied by PIX captioned "Cemetery caretaker Cliff Edwards cleans off the grave of Edwin Gross at Edmonds cemetery. Gross won a silver medal in gymnastics in the 1932 Olympics, and his gravestone (below) bears the game's rings. (PIX by Justin Best/The Herald includes a closeup of the Gross stone with the 1932 Olympics ring symbols on the gravestone.) A 3rd PIX of the grave of George Brackett, who founded Edmonds in 1871 and who later became mayor is included - complete with the traditional wrought iron fence around the grave and its stone memorial. COMMENT: When I came to the area in 1958/59 I saw the cemetery in extreme neglect; overturned tombstones, dry grass complete neglect of this cemetery. At that time Dale Hoggins was a teacher/principal and became an administrator as well as working in the real estate business on the side. Dale was well liked, popular, and took an active part in his community and the whole area. He and others, some of them mentioned in this article "went to bat" and turned the cemetery from a derelect, dismal, landmark in Edmonds to a beautiful, well-kept cemetery as it should have been. What a contrast that became, and one to be very proud of. Read about the history and stories about Edmonds Memorial Cemetery; also how places such as Brackett's Landing; Edmunds became the city's name Edmonds via a misspelling (named after a U.S. Senator from VT- it didn't say whether he was a Democrat or a Republican, however.) This is a great, worthy article and I ponder in my own mind that this could have happened at another cemetery site - that of Snohomish Cemetery - the cemetery located at 2nd Stree and Cypress Avenue in Snohomish - the only cemetery within the city limits of Snohomish. Snohomish Cemetery's past will speak to it f u t u r e . Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * *