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Volunteers needed to help clean up this beautiful historic cemetery. We will need volunteers Saturday May 31, 2014 at 8:00am.
Please no children under the age of 16.
Some history about the Cemetery - The Historic Fairview Cemetery is an important part of Albuquerque history with over 12,000 burials, uniting families and strangers both past and present. In November of 1882, a letter was written by Elias Stover, first president of the University of New Mexico, and was printed in the Albuquerque Morning Journal, informing the Board of Trade Association that individuals were burying their friends along the side of a sand hill which was never intended to be a cemetery. Thus, we have the humble beginnings of Fairview Memorial Park. Not too long after this letter was published, a group of prominent local individuals got together and formed the Albuquerque Cemetery Association. The first documented burial at what became the Fairview cemetery was on February 23, 1881: Mosheim Perea, a young lad from Corrales. - Excerpt from [url=http://www.historicabq.org/fairview-memorial-park.html]Fairview Memorial Park, Fairview, Fairview Cemetery - Contact Us[/url]
What you will need -
**Please Read**
What to wear --
Dress in layers
Jeans/Heavy pants or shorts
Boots or any closed toe shoes
Sunscreen and/or hat
What to bring --
Heavy duty leather gloves (we will be handling goat heads and trash, so good gloves are a must!)
Dust Mask (Not required but if you have allergies this may help)
Water, Water Water!
A Snack
Shovels (preferably flat but any kind will do)
Weeding Hoe (Regular Garden Variety will work as well)
Rakes
Weed Whacker/Grass Blade
Gas Weed eater (this will help a lot with some of the heavier weeded/overgrown areas)
Heavy Duty Trash bags
Ice Scraper (Sounds odd, but this will come to good use to scrape the goat-heads off your shoes)
Old blankets that you do not want and can not be donated - these will be used in the cleanup process.
Anything you bring you are responsible for, please don't leave anything behind!!
If you have any questions or want to know more please visit our Facebook page Facebook.com/HistoricFairviewCemetery and like us! Also, you can join the event as well and get more info at Facebook.com/events/1496532960568937/
If you can not join us, please sign our petition! We need your help!
[url]http://www.change.org/petitions/save-albuquerque-s-history-save-historic-fairview-cemetery[/url]
Questions via email may be sent to [email]abqhistoricfairview@gmail.com[/email]
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