by Emily Besler-Dean | Aug 25, 2024 | Blog
“That sounds kinda sad,” My friend’s mouth twisted. I had just told her that I was going to be participating in a cemetery field school. I got her reaction- death is a lot. But sadness wasn’t top of my mind in July 2023. I was incredibly fortunate last summer to do...
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...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | Jun 5, 2017 | Blog
Throughout this course, we have seen many damaged and worn monuments within the Congregation Emanu-El Cemetery here in Victoria, BC. For many of these cases, the projects are just too grand for our group to undertake. However, during our last class Erin taught us one...
by Torah Lee | May 26, 2017 | Blog
Figure 1. Overview of falling monuments in need of preservation and conservation. Specifically focusing on plot G22 in the Jewish Cemetery. Photography by Torah Lee. What is gravestone preservation? Is it important? Why do we need it and who is doing it? These are all...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 20, 2017 | Blog
Thursday May 18th we had a visit from a local conservationist Carl Hughes from Meadowlark Memorials. It was different than what I expected. My first thought was it would be something like a walking lecture, identifying signs of damage and explaining issues around that...
