A couple of weeks ago, I ran into Ed and Dr. Shirley Finn. They, Mary McQueen and her now-deceased parents were in the vanguard of maintenance of the African-American cemetery within Stateline Cemetery for years and years.

I told the Finns I believed I could rustle up some youngsters from a couple of church youth groups for a cemetery cleanup when the weather gets a little more tolerable, if they knew some adults who could help supervise and operate the power tools. Ed told me they had been thinking about getting the place in shape again too. He will give me a call when he’s got th...

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