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Retired professor works to repair gravestones

by Associated Press

KTVB.COM

Posted on December 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Updated Tuesday, Dec 29 at 4:00 AM

 

 

 

 

LEWISTON -- A retired Lewis-Clark State College professor and two of his former students plan to raise money and spruce up a northern Idaho cemetery long targeted by vandals.

About 800 gravestones are in various stages of disrepair at Normal Hill Cemetery in downtown Lewiston because of vandalism, age and a century of wind, rain and sun.

Former political science professor Richard Moore is coordinating efforts with his former students to create a nonprofit and raise money to restore the headstones, preserving a piece of the city's history.

Moore says his efforts were prompted after finding the weathered grave of Henry Jones, who commanded a local unit of the National Guard and served during World War I.

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