NCPTT held its Southeast Cemetery Monument Conservation Workshop at St. Michaels Cemetery in Pensacola, Fla., on Oct. 23-25.

The Joint Readiness Training Center and Ft. Polk hosted their first Heritage Day Celebration on Nov. 3, 2007 at Ft. Polk, La.

NCPTT recently released Spanish-language translations of its “Basic Stone Monument Cleaning” and “Basic Resetting Vol. 1″ instructional videos.

On September 29, NCPTT and the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program held a Cemetery Preservation Basics Workshop in Hot Springs, Ark.

Materials Conservator Jason Church demonstrates how to properly repair an iron fence.

Jason Church and Bianca Garcia conducted a Cemetery Monument Conservation Basics workshop at City Cemetery No. 1, San Antonio, Texas on June 16, 2007.

$695 per person. October 23-25, 2007.

NCPTT’s Jason Church conducted fieldwork as part of a comparative study of commercially available cleaners for use on federally issued headstones.

Topics covered in the workshop include grave marker cleaning, basic resetting, materials identification, and ethical issues.

San Antonio, TX · June 16, 2007. 9:00AM to 12:00 PM.

Jason Church and David W. Morgan represented NCPTT at the Louisiana Preservation Alliance annual meeting, held May 5, 2007 in Monroe, Louisiana.

Materials Conservator Jason Church demonstrates how to properly clean a stone grave marker.

Here are nine tips for cemetery preservation that I have learned.

Mary Striegel and Jason Church conducted visits to the Antietam National Battlefield and the Harper’s Ferry Conservation Center immediately after the TELNPS course.

NCPTT will make excerpts from its Jan. 30 Tel-Net course “Essentials in Cemetery Monument Care,” available online.

NCPTT produced two five-minute video clips on proper techniques for cleaning and resetting cemetery headstones as companion pieces to its recent TELNPS course, “Essentials in Cemetery Monument Care.”

Materials Research Chief Mary Striegel and Materials Conservator Jason Church conduct a TEL NPS course “Essentials in Cemetery Monument Care” broadcast on January 30, 2007.

NCPTT will broadcast its first telnet course, “Essentials in Cemetery Monument Care,” on Jan. 30, 2007 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST.

The scenic Silver Terrace Cemetery was the setting for NCPTT’s Southwest Regional Cemetery Conservation Workshop held in Virginia City, Nev. Sept. 26-28, 2006.

NCPTT recently provided a daylong consultation with David Patterson and Brett Smith of Sipapu Cemetery Services.