Course Details:

This is a one-day course from 9:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Following the course, participants will be ready to undertake, under experienced supervision, a five-year work plan for the cemetery of interest. The main topics being covered during the course are:

1. Why cemetery conservation is important, including a brief history of the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church cemetery.
2. How to create a five-year work plan for the cemetery of interest including:
   1. Pre-requisite research, documentation and photographs.
   2. Identifying the type of conditions of gravestones for future priority for restoration.
   3. Identifying landscape conditions which require remedial work.
   4. Recommend priority actions, timing and budget.
3. Multiple cemetery walkthroughs focusing on the details necessary for a five-year plan.