The entrance to the old parish cemetery in Reay where we are transcribing all the readable inscriptions and making it ready for publication. The stairs going up and over the other side were believed useful for the spirits to go and come when the gate was locked. This cemetery dates back to the 1600s.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Here I am scrubbing the dirt and lichen off the stone to prepare it to be read. Some of them are virtually so eroded and weathered they are impossible, but others like this one just look that bad until we work on them and do our magic trick with baking soda. It works ten times better than "rubbings".
This is Vincent Wilkinson, our newly baptized member and his fiance Tori Stone from West Valley, Utah. They will leave here next week to go to Utah where they will settle after their wedding in November. He has been a joy to teach. He has been so faithful, diligent in his studies and so pure hearted. We will miss him.
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