The Cemetery Resource Protection Training workshop focuses on cemetery care and protection. Participants explore cemeteries as historical resources while learning about laws that protect them, conserving headstone and markers, managing cemetery landscapes, and practicing hands-on headstone cleaning with D-2 Biological Solution. By the end of the course, participants are well-versed in issues surrounding basic protection of historic cemeteries and are encouraged to record a historic cemetery over the next year.
Trainings usually take place from 9:00am-2:30pm with classroom activities in the morning, lunch on your own, and afternoon in a local cemetery.
The classroom session includes a series of short discussions on:
The in-field training includes:
Participants should wear closed-toed shoes and dress comfortably for a morning inside and an afternoon outside. Refreshments provided in the morning, lunch on your own, please bring water and snacks for the afternoon.
Event Duration: This is an all-day training, usually taking place from 9:00am-2:30pm with classroom activities in the morning, lunch on your own, and afternoon in a local cemetery.
Event Audience: This training is appropriate for adults and is designed to teach you how to manage and work in historic cemeteries in Florida. Audience size between 12-20 people is required, we can assist in marketing to find participants but require at least 12 people to hold a training, if we cannot secure at least 12 participants the event will be cancelled or postponed.
Event Locations: This event requires a morning indoor space and a cemetery for the afternoon. Morning indoor location must have space for presentations (projector and screen) and the audience. Tables are ideal so participants can take notes during the presentations. Libraries, community centers, and museums typically work well for training.
Afternoon cemetery location: We MUST have written approval to work in a cemetery from the land owner (listed on the county property appraiser’s website). We can assist in this, but this is required for any of our work in historic cemeteries.