On Sunday, August 15 at 1:30 pm at the General John A. Logan Museum Hal Hassen, Archaeologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, and Dawn Cobb, Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act Coordinator for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, will present the program A Guide to Understanding Illinois’s Historic Cemeteries.
The presentation will cover the above ground visual and material features found in Illinois’ cemeteries including graves, grave markers, landscaping, fences, and the also their recognizable spatial arrangement. It will explain how placement and arrangement of these items reflect specific choices and provide insight into how people structured and ordered their social and physical landscape and how cemeteries reflect changing cultural and social values over time. The program will provide a better understanding of these visual characteristics and their changes through time and provide a deeper meaning to what is represented in burial grounds and cemeteries. The program will also present an overview of the laws which protect Illinois cemeteries ensuring their preservation for the future.
A question and answer session will follow the program.
Hassen and Cobb will present a follow-up to this program, The Dos and Don’ts of Repairing Gravestones and Restoring Abandoned Cemeteries, in October 2010. Also scheduled for October is tour of historic Holliday Cemetery.
This programming is a part of the General John A. Logan Museum’s new exhibit, Gone But Not Forgotten: The Power of Cemeteries This exhibit, an overview of the establishment and care of cemeteries in rural Southern Illinois during the 19th and early 20th century, runs to November 15, 2010.
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On Sunday, August 15 at 1:30 pm at the General John A. Logan Museum Hal Hassen, Archaeologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, and Dawn Cobb, Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act Coordinator for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, will present the program A Guide to Understanding Illinois’s Historic Cemeteries.
The presentation will cover the above ground visual and material features found in Illinois’ cemeteries including graves, grave markers, landscaping, fences, and the also their recognizable spatial arrangement. It will explain how placement and arrangement of these items reflect specific choices and provide insight into how people structured and ordered their social and physical landscape and how cemeteries reflect changing cultural and social values over time. The program will provide a better understanding of these visual characteristics and their changes through time and provide a deeper meaning to what is represented in burial grounds and cemeteries. The program will also present an overview of the laws which protect Illinois cemeteries ensuring their preservation for the future.
A question and answer session will follow the program.
Hassen and Cobb will present a follow-up to this program, The Dos and Don’ts of Repairing Gravestones and Restoring Abandoned Cemeteries, in October 2010. Also scheduled for October is tour of historic Holliday Cemetery.
This programming is a part of the General John A. Logan Museum’s new exhibit, Gone But Not Forgotten: The Power of Cemeteries This exhibit, an overview of the establishment and care of cemeteries in rural Southern Illinois during the 19th and early 20th century, runs to November 15, 2010.
