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Date Change. Join us for May Restoration over the Memorial Day Weekend: Friday May 24, Sat May 25 & Sunday May 26, noon til dusk. Meet the SOAL Volunteer Team at Harrisburg’s oldest historically African American burial grounds: Lincoln Cemetery for a Free/Donation-based one-of-a-kind experience
All ages and levels of experience welcome! Come for a few hours or all day. We are onsite rain or shine, in the heat and cold.
Join SavingOurAncestorsLegacy for our third year leading hands-on educational volunteer experiences in Radical History Reclamation! Black Cemetery Restoration recovers American History!
Activities Include:
Gravestone Cleaning
Finding Missing & Sunken Grave Markers
Resetting Headstones
Restoring Historic Cemetery Features
Repairing Broken Gravestones
Cradle Grave Gardening
Beautification of Grounds
Lawn Maintenance
Learn Methods for Reading Headstones
Learn Local Black History
Light Building and Construction
Community Outreach & Education
You Might Also Learn Techniques for
Online Cemetery Documentation
Geotagging Gravesites
Cemetery Photography
PLEASE FILL OUT A PARTICIPANT WAIVER ON GOOGLE FORMS https://forms.gle/VuJ3heXLouQofNJMA
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If you can't make it out --DONATE
Help fund the SOAL at Lincoln Cemetery Harrisburg Restoration Project!
We Still Need:
People to join our board and management team, in-kind, and service-based contributions: including grant-writing, accounting, meals and snacks for volunteers, tools, materials, vehicles, tree services, web design and development, copy editing, legal assistance, visual and performing artists, volunteer management, program and project managers, storytellers, cemetery restoration specialists to lead special workshops, arborists, farmers, a herd of goats, sheep, and alpacas, film makers, oral historians, genealogists, and YOU to share family stories, research, and photos. Just to name a few.
SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy is a 501c3 pubic charity. All donations are tax-deductible as allowable by law.
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SOAL, 201 S 30th St,Harrisburg,PA,United States
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