Comments on: Preserving Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:53:00 +0000

I was happy to learn that there are organizations such as SOC that want to help preserve the cemeteries because some of the tombs I had seen were in bad shape and need to be restored back to the way they were.

By: samiya selim

samiya selim — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:47:08 +0000

Thanks for bringing this to my attention..I do love visiting cemeteries all over the world, think they should be preserved and that’s great that there are organizations like SOC doing such wonderful work!

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:47:15 +0000

I haven’t personally done something like taking a rock and paper and rubbing it over a stone to get the engraving off of it but I know of some people who have done that. I would have loved to have walked through one of the cemeteries when I was in Dublin a couple of years ago. Never got around to it.

By: Jenn of Who Needs Maps

Jenn of Who Needs Maps — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:49:37 +0000

I once did a cemetery tour in Dublin that reminds me a bit of this… they would take papers and a rock over the tomb stone and rub it so the paper has the engraving of the tomb stone! They said it was a way for families to preserve their name and stone!

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:56:23 +0000

I feel the same way in that it has brought about an awareness of these cemeteries that I didn’t know of until I visited New Orleans.