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Greetings, all.
I received this from another mailing list I am on, and thought I would pass
it along to the list.
--Megan Springate
>Subject: URGENT: Albany County Almshouse Cemetery
>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:42:41 -0000
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>A threatened site in the City of Albany needs your help! A private
>developer is currently impacting a portion of the 19th century Albany
>County Almshouse cemetery site. The New York Archaeological Council
>(NYAC) was informed last month that the developer was planning to
>remove several graves (including those of children) with a backhoe.
>The NYAC Board wrote a letter of concern to the Mayor's office and
>was informed no work would occur on the site until a plan for
>sensitive treatment of the burials was developed. However, NYAC was
>informed that backhoes were on site this Monday. The mayor's office
>was contacted, and NYAC was faxed a copy of a Memorandum of
>Understanding that still called for excavation by backhoe and
>by "grave diggers," with no formal archaeological mitigation
>planned. The MOU is no different than the developer's original plan,
>and was signed only by the developer and the City Archaeologist.
>Several local archaeologists are monitoring the situation and are
>trying to put a stop to the project until a more adequate MOU is
>formulated.
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>The developer and the city are both aware of the significance of this
>resource as NYAC has written several letters concerning the
>situation, and the New York State Museum has excavated nearly 800
>burials on the property immediately adjacent to this parcel.
>
>Please help by sending a letter of concern to the mayor's office
>stating that the current work should be stopped immediately and that
>this segment of the site should not be treated any differently than
>the adjacent property, and therefore should be subject to a full
>archaeological mitigation.
>
>Please send your letters to Mayor Gerald Jennings, City Hall, Eagle
>Street, Albany, New York 12207. If possible, please fax the letter:
>(518) 434-5013. If you have any questions please e-mail me at:
>[log in to unmask] Thanks in advance for any support you can
>provide.
>
>Carol A. Raemsch, Ph.D.
>Chair, NYAC Human Remains Committee
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