On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Nate Gillette wrote:

> By the way, I saw you give a presentation at the Cemetery Preservation
> conference in Berrien Springs this year.  You're presentation was
> interesting but I didn't really care for the whole tone of the conference. I
> was wondering what your take on that conference was?

I didn't have any involvement in setting up the conference.  They invited
me to come and speak about some political points I had made earlier on
another email list, when I proposed a statewide cemetery preservation
lobbying group (other states have this, why not Michigan?).  I didn't
expect to be the big opening act.  I had never met any of these folks
before.  Nor am I a good public speaker, to say the least.  But it was
kinda fun, and the response seemed positive.

> I was a little put off by the group of so called "feature preservationists"
> who were preserving their cemetery by reengraving the headstones with dremel
> tools and dentist tools.  There were other destructive treatments they were
> using also.  All I could think of was, Is this the best they could come up
> with?

Yikes!  That must have happened after I left.

                                 Larry

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