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Uncovering History

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I 've taken on a new hobby. Just what I need, another hobby to take me away from writing. But it's okay! I don't write much in the summertime anyway, and this hobby, alongside with my gardening, which by the way I've been slacking on this year, can only be done when it's nice outside and not freezing. What is it you say? Take a look! Before After! Before After! Before After! The inscription on the bottom reads: Jennie, it's my sorrow's pride This last dim duty to fulfill Though all the world forget beside Friends will you remember still And one more... Before In progress... Since last fall I had begun cleaning headstones, starting with a few that the historical society I'm currently a board member of have chosen to put on a list as part of a cemetery tour/walk of some notables of our town. The walk is scheduled for our town's sesquicentennial in 2019, so that is giving us time to clean up s