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Getting Your Hands Dirty: Reflections on Headstone Cleaning

Getting Your Hands Dirty: Reflections on Headstone Cleaning

by Erin-Lee McGuire | Jul 24, 2023 | Blog

This post contains my thoughts and feelings after spending a day in the VictoriaJewish Cemetery caring for some of the monuments that lie there. Guest post by Hazel W. On July 20th our Anthropology 367 class began work on cleaning some of the headstones in the Jewish...
A Living Space: On Cemeteries, Emotions, and Connection with the Past

A Living Space: On Cemeteries, Emotions, and Connection with the Past

by Maya K. | Jul 15, 2023 | Blog

Image credit: The Jewish Cemetery of Victoria, British Columbia I thought of cemeteries as dead. The times I’ve gone have been marked by sadness, which tends to bleed out into the rest of my memories until every vision I have of these spaces is rainy. The day of my...

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