Was Lost But Now Is Found Traditional Cache
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Was Lost But Now Is Found
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At first glance you might think you have to enter from 31A or East Lee Road. This is not correct. The entrance is on County House Road.
Residents at the Orleans County Alms House were a forgotten class of people, but thanks to an Albion service learning class’ hard work and the help of local officials and historians, the area where some of the Alms House residents were buried will be remembered.
The graveyard had become lost in a patch of overgrowth surrounded by farm fields, but on Monday a large crowd was able to gather on the plot cleared and cleaned by the Orleans County Highway Department to dedicate a monument commemorating those who lived at the Alms House.
The ceremony occurred one year to the day after Albion service learning teacher Tim Archer and a group of brave students discovered the first of 66 gravestones in the heavily wooded area.
Archer’s seventh-grade class spent this school year poring through century-old documents in their search for information about those buried underneath numbered gravestones. The class determined the names of more than 160 of the residents buried at the Alms House using Board of Supervisors’ minutes, death ledgers and medical records.
“These people were forgotten,” Archer said. “This project brings them back to life.”
Orleans County Historian C.W. Lattin, who unveiled the monument with Albion student Dylan Bader, said the students’ effort ensures that the memory of the men and women buried in the graveyard will live on.
“So long as we live, they, too, shall live,” said Lattin, quoting from a poem by Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn. “For they are now part of us, we remember them.”
Speakers also celebrated the students for their effort.
“Orleans County is proud of you,” Legislature Chairman David Callard told the assemblage of seventh-graders. “You took an idea, developed it and transferred it into something practical.”
Archer said the class is finishing a book about the Alms House that will be available for purchase this summer. He said the class has made several touches to the site to ensure that future generations will remember their work.
“The students planted three ceremonial trees that will be grown by the time they’re bringing their children here,” Archer said.
The class will also bury a time capsule this fall.
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Qevir nebhaq naq nobhg, gura qbja gur snezref ynar. Qba'g fgbc gvy lbh trg gurer.
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