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Commission updates restoration progress, previews Colored Cemetery film and proposes Boston-family memorial
Summary
The commission reported progress on a multi-year monument-restoration project across town cemeteries, previewed a May 4 premiere of a "Colored Cemetery" documentary at the Dreamland, and discussed erecting a memorial for Absalom and Hannah Boston where family burials are unmarked.
The commission reported that monument-restoration work is underway and that contractors have begun or will soon begin repairs in Newtown Cemetery as part of a multi-year program that will reach the town's five cemeteries with the largest numbers of monuments.
Commissioners said specialized mortars and a stone-cleaning product (referred to in the meeting as a biologic cleaner) are being used. The commission said the contractor team will move between island projects as weather…
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