Conservation Project Talk and Tour of the Milk Row Cemetery (Part of May Preservation Month)

Barbara Mangum, Objects Conservator and President of the Somerville Museum, Dressed in period clothing will highlight the work her firm recently completed with the City’s Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds. Many markers and the Civil War Monument were repaired, cleaned and reset in this compact burial ground. Founded in 1804 by Samuel Tufts it sits on farmland once part of Charlestown. Light refreshments donated by Market Basket, a “Friend of the Cemetery.” Meet at the front gate at 439 Somerville Avenue. Heavy rain cancels.