November, 1989
Greenwich Time, Greenwich, Connecticut
To the editor:
It is with pleasure to call to the attention of your paper and is readers the successful cleanup of two old historic burying grounds in the Town of Greenwich. The Historical Society, as many are aware, has engaged the help of the young people of the town and others in order to clean up and restore neglected cemeteries in the town for the last several years.
On November 12, members of the Brunswick Key Club came out as they have previously to perform a cleanup at the old burying ground at Butternut Hollow Road, the oldest historic cemetery in the Clapboard Ridge area. The Historical Society extends its thanks and gratitude to those fine young men and their faculty advisor, Mr. Peter Kashatus, for a job well done. It is my hope that area residents will join together to form an association to preserve this cemetery so that the hard work of these young people will not be in vain.
On November 18, members of the Greenwich High School Key Club and Signettes Club joined forces to tackle a badly-needed cleanup of the historic Tomac Cemetery, the oldest existing burying ground in the Town of Greenwich. The young men and women of these two high school organizations performed a job we who are interested in the preservation of these historic sites can be proud of. despite cool temperatures a large turnout was ascertained, and with successful results at this neglected cemetery. With a cleanup of one-quarter of this site achieved we hope to return again in the spring for badly needed attention to this site.
With the coming in 1990 of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Town of Greenwich my hope is that others in Greenwich will join us in this cooperative venture to help preserve these historically significant sites. My thanks, as always, goes to our volunteers for their hard work and enthusiasm.
Jeffrey Bingham Mead
Chairman
Historic Burying Grounds Committee
The Historical Society
of the Town of Greenwich
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