find out how you can learn to clean gravestones and help save Cape Cod history next hey Cass you know I use my penknife and sharpen it up but that's not gonna hurt don't so in a way what you do is almost bringing these gravestones back to life as it were back to life and and what I'm doing is saving the history of the town of Falmouth in this hole burying ground here and found and I want groups of people from each one of the towns so let's get together I'll teach you how to do this and let's go out and save the history of the town I have no problem with coming to your town on a Saturday afternoon bringing some of my supplies showing you how to do it and tell me where to get them today I have a person from Brewster a person from Dennis a person from Yarmouth and a person from Falmouth and they are interested in saving the history of their towns but the way we clean green stones we use water and a soft scrub brush now this happens to be a natural fiber brush though I just keep scrubbing in circles and scrubbing in circles and scrubbing in circles making sure I do the whole thing the back the top the side and it's taking out some of that dirt now I'd imagine before you go to your local cemetery and start getting involved with this permission who do you go to for something like that well if it's a town cemetery like this is the old town burying ground each town has one check with the DPW check to see if you have a cemetery Commission in town so you wouldn't mind being the catalyst of a worldwide movement of gravestone cleaning and history preservation if someone's got to do it are you willing to step up with your scrub brush sure sure anybody wants to help me let me know if people wanna get a hold you through an email address or something that makes sense yeah it's a real easy email address it's FAL SEM FAL cem meaning found the cemetery at hotmail.com hey Cass and 1831 so it was probably placed after 31 1831 it was marble and was beautiful beautiful white beautiful white that is hard to believe well dirt I mean there's dirt in the world you stick your kid outside for for 200 years he's gonna be dirty