Portland Cement & Burial Grounds

Met the forester at Van Cortlandt Park last week while on a field trip
to look at stone mock-up columns Vanderbilt had built for Grand Central
Terminal - so I was told. Well, there are 13 stone columns standing in
the woods w/ anti-graf gray paint on them. It took a bit of orienteering
to find them, and the forester.

The forester related how vandals were breaking through a stone wall and
digging up the Van Cortlandt family gravesites. He got himself some
Portland cement and mixed up a mortar and patched the wall. Then he got
in hot water for using too hard of a mortar. His perplexity was over
wondering if it was more important to worry about the stone wall or the
desecration of the graves.

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