Sunday, November 14 — Hunterdon County

Tewksbury Historical Society Hosts David R. Reading on Saving Hunterdon’s Abandoned Cemeteries

The Tewksbury Historical Society hosts a lecture by David R. Reading on Sunday, November 14th at 6:15 PM. at the Fairmount Presbyterian Church Community House, 247 Old Turnpike Road, Fairmount section of Tewksbury. It is free and open to the public. Preceding the talk is a covered dish supper at 5 p.m., also open to the public, with a request to bring a covered dish to share. Call 908-832-6734 to make a reservation; leave your name and phone number for information or directions.

 Reading is President and Founder of the Mount Amwell Project, Inc., a historical preservation charity dedicated to cultural and historical preservation in Hunterdon County. He will lecture on the process, methods and legal aspects required to preserve abandoned at risk cemeteries in Hunterdon County. He will illustrate the talk with examples of the preservations completed over the last fifteen years, beginning with the Reading Burial Ground near Rosemont.

 Society information is found on its website: www.tewksburyhistory.net