Repairing Gravestones

Photo by Midge Frazel 2011

The Doctor is In

Broken gravestones should only be repaired or reset by those who know how to do it. I took this photo in the Lower Village Cemetery here in Stow, MA with the permission of the cemetery superintendent. 

The town hired a conservator who knows how to do this correctly and since repairs take some days to accomplish, the cemetery superintendent must keep an eye on the job until the area around the stone is complete and the equipment holding the bonding material can be safely removed.