Cemetery Research, Education, and Services
Research & Education
Research & Tours
Explore cemeteries as living cultural landscapes through guided walks, archival inquiry, and close attention to place.
Stone and Root Tours: Monthly walks at exploring stone, ecology, weathering, and memory.
Private Group Walks: Experiences shaped around your group’s interests in architecture, materials, nature, and public memory.
Family & Burial-Place Research: Archival research connecting people, memorials, and the landscapes around them.
Cemetery Mapping & Documentation: Grave location, spatial mapping, photography, and project-based documentation for families, communities, and organizations.
Education
Develop the knowledge and confidence to understand cemetery landscapes and participate thoughtfully in their care.
Gravestone Care Workshops: An introduction to identifying materials, observing condition, documenting markers, and understanding when cleaning is appropriate. In development.
Landscape & Material Workshops: Guided learning about geology, ecology, weathering, and the relationships between built and living environments.
Research & Creative Practice Workshops: Explore mapping, drawing, archival research, and field observation as ways of learning from place.
Talks & Custom Programs: Presentations and learning experiences for schools, community groups, cultural organizations, and cemetery stewards.
Specialty Services
Personal, attentive care for burial places, with clear communication and respect for the people and memories they hold.
Gravestone Cleaning: Cleaning guided by the material and condition of the stone, with photographic documentation.
Planting & Ground Care: Small planting and grounds-care projects suited to the site and permitted by the cemetery.
Seasonal Care: Recurring visits arranged around your wishes and the cemetery’s requirements.
Individual Care Visits: Thoughtful tending, photographs, and a written update when you cannot visit yourself.
Flowers & Memorial Placement: Placement of flowers, wreaths, or personal tributes, with photographs afterward.
Dates of Remembrance: Visits for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and other meaningful occasions.
Condition Documentation & Specialist Referrals: Recording visible concerns and identifying when specialist conservation or structural assessment is needed.
Special Projects: Individual proposals for family plots, larger memorials, and other care or documentation needs.
