Date: Saturday, July 26, 2022
Time: 10am
Location: Sinking Spring Cemetery

Many people have family cemeteries that are in disrepair, with tombstones discolored or covered with lichens. This workshop will teach you the best way to clean tombstones. Do you use soap and water, a spray washer, the D2 Biological solution, or do you simply use a brush? Charlie Barnette became interested in tombstone repair and cemetery restoration a decade ago when he was researching his own family’s cemeteries. Then, after involvement with the Historical Society of Washington County Virginia, he became committed to photographing and documenting tombstones throughout Washington County, Virginia. Today he has digitally documented over 800 cemeteries, maintains about a dozen, and has repaired and cleaned numerous tombstones.