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Trash clean up is one thing, but brush clearing in a heatwave is a very stupid thing for me to sign up for. But...
Grab your gardening gloves & come join us for a day of brush removal in Section 114 of our cemetery! This is an area of our cemetery that was lost to time for many years until a map confirming it's existence was discovered in 2017
Yeah, so I spent my morning helping clear brush to prepare the area for ground penetrating radar to help map the area. One reason for the mapping, is that there are bodies that shouldn't be there. Native Alaskians used to be ruled 'criminally insane' and sent to asylums in Portland, Oregon so their land could be seized. The lot we were working on has some Tlingit people, they just don't know where. The graves need to be identified so they can either be properly marked and tended to here or sent back to Alaska. Riverview Cemetery has disinterred over 200 graves to get the bodies to where they should be buried.
So I was very interested in helping to uncover some graves, but turns out were were also working on finding specific bodies. Due to the heat, we weren't out as long as planned, but we did get a chunk of clearing done.
I'd planned on going to this cemetery not too long ago. I've never been, it's waaaay down in the Macadam area: technically Portland but also south of South Portland. I need to go back and walk it all, and also look more into this and other project there. There was talk of a webpage for the project and I need to track that down.
And OH, OH! The people who work for the cemetery/mausoleum there, they haven't been to Portland Mausoleum because they are newer to the area and weren't around when it was more accessible, but also they are like... suspicious of people working for other mausoleums? They've taken badly to them even asking to take a look around. There is like drama between the non-profit and for-profit mausoleums? Man, if I hadn't gotten involved in this clean up stuff I might have missed all this.
So, I am sending one of the mausoleum employees a link to the Librarians episode filmed in Portland Mausoleum so she can see the inside. I could also send my own pics, but I mentioned to her about a TV show filmed in there and she was curious.
I am definitely going to be spending some time down there, learning more and also walking all of it. Not until the heat breaks, though.
Grab your gardening gloves & come join us for a day of brush removal in Section 114 of our cemetery! This is an area of our cemetery that was lost to time for many years until a map confirming it's existence was discovered in 2017
Yeah, so I spent my morning helping clear brush to prepare the area for ground penetrating radar to help map the area. One reason for the mapping, is that there are bodies that shouldn't be there. Native Alaskians used to be ruled 'criminally insane' and sent to asylums in Portland, Oregon so their land could be seized. The lot we were working on has some Tlingit people, they just don't know where. The graves need to be identified so they can either be properly marked and tended to here or sent back to Alaska. Riverview Cemetery has disinterred over 200 graves to get the bodies to where they should be buried.
So I was very interested in helping to uncover some graves, but turns out were were also working on finding specific bodies. Due to the heat, we weren't out as long as planned, but we did get a chunk of clearing done.
I'd planned on going to this cemetery not too long ago. I've never been, it's waaaay down in the Macadam area: technically Portland but also south of South Portland. I need to go back and walk it all, and also look more into this and other project there. There was talk of a webpage for the project and I need to track that down.
And OH, OH! The people who work for the cemetery/mausoleum there, they haven't been to Portland Mausoleum because they are newer to the area and weren't around when it was more accessible, but also they are like... suspicious of people working for other mausoleums? They've taken badly to them even asking to take a look around. There is like drama between the non-profit and for-profit mausoleums? Man, if I hadn't gotten involved in this clean up stuff I might have missed all this.
So, I am sending one of the mausoleum employees a link to the Librarians episode filmed in Portland Mausoleum so she can see the inside. I could also send my own pics, but I mentioned to her about a TV show filmed in there and she was curious.
I am definitely going to be spending some time down there, learning more and also walking all of it. Not until the heat breaks, though.
