tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14167434356398952692024-02-06T20:00:47.110-08:00Compost:cemeteries: CONCEPTSFollowing in the nature of Social sculpture by Joseph Beuys, I have been working on a conceptual cemetery project.
“Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-66662100970039026192011-09-15T14:25:00.000-07:002016-03-28T08:42:53.279-07:00Cemetery Projects in process<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><br />
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<li>The new project: designing an interactive map of forgotten cemeteries in SF/NY city proper</li>
<li>In process: Working with a land trust to support Landscape Art Projects on Cemetery Land</li>
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We are excited to announce a guest performance at 4 pm by Louie Jenkins: Louie is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester where she specializes in Solo Performance, Performance Writing and Devising, Applied and Interventionist Theatre. Louie’s main research interests are in autobiographical solo performance with specific reference to illness, dying, mortality and grief - exploring biopolitics and Lacanian notions of trauma and death.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-22118976028184777172011-05-08T15:03:00.000-07:002011-05-08T15:03:47.310-07:00Tree Compost<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trees are celebrated symbols of hope, sustenance, and life. But as they get cut down and die, trees represent the passage from life into death. This week at the cemetery a strong wind pulled down a tree, Anna painted a tree stump in memory of a tree, and her son Matthew built a teepee out of cut branches and recycled wooden poles.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Isn't it time we change SF Law and bring burials and cremation back to the City. With new advances in composting methods, and reusing the energy from crematoriums, SF should revamp their policies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://infinityburialproject.com/kit">http://infinityburialproject.com/kit</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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Deadline: June 23, 2011 <br />
G2 Art Gallery is accepting submissions for the 2011 Compost: Cemetery Concept exhibition. We will be hosting indoor and outdoor shows for artists. The show will run for 8 weeks. We are seeking a portfolio of original artwork that is appropriate for a columbarium, cemetery, funeral, memorial, and/or gallery setting.<br />
Eligibility: All 2- and 3-dimensional media are acceptable – painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, mixed media, light, dance, performance, written word, and installation for both indoor and outdoor spaces.<br />
How to Enter: Submit digital images or video/audio of your work, image list (detailing media and artwork sizes), resume/cv and artist’s statement to: the facebook public event page. <br />
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An artist statement/bio and price list will be displayed accompanying the exhibit.<br />
Submit work that is available or not available for exhibition – sold or unavailable works are accepted on the online gallery. The application deadline is June 23, 2011. <br />
Acceptance: Artists will be notified of acceptance to the physical show in the G2 Gallery by July 7, 2011. The number of artists and amount of work accepted into the exhibition will depend on media, size, and number of entries. <br />
Commission: The artist will receive 80% on any sales of artworks sold through the physical gallery. <br />
Artwork Delivery: Artists are responsible for packing/delivery/shipping and retrieval of works from the Gallery. Delivered works MUST be framed, ready to hang and/or exhibition ready. Artwork must arrive at the gallery no later than five days before the scheduled opening of the show.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-46107490215362875842011-02-05T18:54:00.000-08:002011-02-05T18:54:45.930-08:00Starting the labyrinth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8jMjgT0YHaUj0Mss1PhWhnqhl5rdZfHz0_sOOMvszwULgb-nkdn7oFiBHriMAz5jxcZEiqXAdowFjBspVkbRsb7NAkNHSmShgRD6AbbCQFweWrG8rBCQojbTVxQcA3lzFC5p2xkYpY4/s1600/IMG_0334.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8jMjgT0YHaUj0Mss1PhWhnqhl5rdZfHz0_sOOMvszwULgb-nkdn7oFiBHriMAz5jxcZEiqXAdowFjBspVkbRsb7NAkNHSmShgRD6AbbCQFweWrG8rBCQojbTVxQcA3lzFC5p2xkYpY4/s320/IMG_0334.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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Laugh at father death, but all this obsession is bringing me closer to my own...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SF General lies on top of a cemetery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stone found near McKinley Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I feel like I am digging my own grave</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-71102171551076429002011-01-31T09:27:00.000-08:002011-01-31T09:27:49.660-08:00We are living on top of a cemetery.San Francisco:<br />
We are living on top of a cemetery.<br />
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Sound Organ in the Marina <br />
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<a href="http://slideshow.exploratorium.edu/soundslides/driven/1/publish_to_web/index.html">http://slideshow.exploratorium.edu/soundslides/driven/1/publish_to_web/index.html</a><br />
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Buena Vista Park:<br />
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<a href="http://www.sanfranciscocemeteries.com/buena_vista_a.html">http://www.sanfranciscocemeteries.com/buena_vista_a.html</a><br />
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Wonder what it would be like to scan SF with a detector:<br />
<a href="http://www.okm-emirates.com/Rover_class.htm">http://www.okm-emirates.com/Rover_class.htm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-3931086347027513972011-01-30T09:09:00.000-08:002011-01-30T09:09:09.771-08:00Interesting Radio shows on home funerals.Yesterday driving to see my friend's art show, I heard a great radio show about Home Funerals on KQED at the same time Nona heard a radio show on NPR....<br />
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Here are the links:<br />
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For a more human show:<br />
<a href="http://www.soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/798/name/Death+Comes+Home">http://www.soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/798/name/Death+Comes+Home</a> KQED<br />
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For a more cerebral show:<br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103668142">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103668142</a> on NPRUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-63933022205124277732011-01-22T19:56:00.000-08:002011-01-22T19:56:02.704-08:00Cemetery Orientation Day Success and next meeting Jan. 29, 2011<ol><li>Thanks to all who came to the orientation day: Chris, Nona, Carrie, Camila, Mala, Phoebe</li>
<li>We have forged a new path down the jungle garden</li>
<li>Looking for burlap bags and/or fabric for the next meeting on Saturday January 29.</li>
<li>If anyone has an electric hedge trimmer, this would also be helpful.</li>
<li>Bring memory stones: to add to the collection (The color theme is granite rock or other natural material, with black or etched in lettering.)</li>
<li>Bless</li>
</ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-17498235308108660912011-01-13T12:14:00.000-08:002011-01-22T19:50:35.221-08:00Project 0: Help build the first modern San Francisco Cemetery 2011<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“At one time, there were probably more than 200,000 graves dug - some more than once - for each of the deceased residents in San Francisco before the year 1900. This was when the Board of Supervisors voted to stop all burials in The City and County of San Francisco, California. The exact number of the interred citizens within The City boundaries is hard to figure because most of the records were destroyed in the fires that resulted from the Great Earthquake of April 18, 1906.” *<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today we announce an opportunity to bring back a cemetery to SF.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There use to be numerous locations throughout The City where different religious groups and organizations bought land for the interment of members. There were Catholic, Chinese, Jewish and Protestant Cemeteries covering many neighborhoods of San Francisco. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This new cemetery will be located in the area between Arkansas Street and Wisconsin Street, with a future entrance at 19<sup>th</sup> street on Potrero Hill, SF.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It will be non-denominational, all-inclusive, memorializing all mammals.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Currently it is illegal to actually cremate anyone in town or bury anyone in the ground in San Francisco, California. The only exception today is the San Francisco National Cemetery/The Presidio. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Therefore this cemetery will be conceptual in nature, a memorial garden for the local community to reflect and remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please come to our ground breaking meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">We're a volunteer-run nonprofit: we rely heavily on people<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">like you to make the memorial <span style="color: #222222;">garden</span> what it will be. So we'd like to invite you to our New Volunteer Orientation Day on Saturday January 22 from<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">10am-12pm. We will meet every Saturday, so if you can't make it this weekend come next.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">If you've never volunteered at a <span style="color: #222222;">garden</span> before, or even if you have,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">please come by: we will give a tour of the <span style="color: #222222;">garden</span> and explain our<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">mission. After that you can tackle a small project from the list:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">weeding, pruning, brainstorming…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Wear sturdy shoes, and bring gloves, if you have them. We provide the tools, beverages and expertise!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Hope to see you there,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 21.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The Cemetery Project Team</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">*For more information and a great page showing you where to find old cemeteries in SF log on to:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-47472421249839309092011-01-11T09:56:00.000-08:002011-01-11T16:27:59.266-08:00Body Disposal as Landscape Art<span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the social sculpture part.</span></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When thinking about our current cemetery practice and its environmental impact on the earth, one realizes the future needs a new solution…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we could change our cemetery practice to benefit the future generations, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what would that look like?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More open space, money for large landscape art projects, gardens; orchards the ideas are limitless… </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the ideas I’ve come up with is burying the dead in the form of a large spiral labyrinth.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Utilizing GPS, we can now mark graves without stones, so the configurations can change.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: TTE18B8218t00;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few sketches: using words… stories… epitaphs… but the words could be vegetables, fruit trees, solar lights (fading in an out), or just ground cover eroding over time…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-45255349828720991912011-01-10T14:39:00.000-08:002011-01-10T14:49:32.721-08:00"Compost to compost" ak "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust".<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; font-size: 11pt;">com·post</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'MS Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Gothic';"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> a look at the definition explains ….</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">–noun </span></i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">1. </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">a mixture of various decaying organic substances, as dead leaves or animal remains, used for fertilizing soil. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">2. </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">a composition; compound. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Thinking of my evitable demise… and the problem left for my daughter to dispose of my body… I wonder, can I make it easier for her?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">By becoming useful: compost</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">By becoming beautiful: a compound</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">This is the drive for the project. To create a “cemetery” of compost feeding an orchard, the orchard in turn feeding the living.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;">1/4 of an acre lot in Bolinas @ 0 Pine Road</span><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Nona Caspers and I went on a trip to Bolinas, in search of a cemetery, it was a rainy and stormy day.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">This is what we found for sale:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">1/4 of an acre, with an ocean view for 22,000.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Positives: It is only a 1 hour car trip from SF, amazingly we didn't fall of the cliff. The windy road is somewhat like a labyrinth, as you descend into Bolinas. Places to walk along the ocean for contemplation.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Drawbacks: No sleeping over, no building a house, may lose some of the funeral attendees on the windy roads, car sick, vexatious litigant neighbors. <br />
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Conclusion: still looking, any ideas out there please comment</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1416743435639895269.post-12236879592198807382011-01-09T10:50:00.000-08:002011-01-12T20:39:38.641-08:00How to start a family/friend cemetery<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Remember such things as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">flooding and access to the property.</span><br />
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<li id="jsArticleStep3" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font: 14px/1.3em arial; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="stepNumber" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #c3c3c3; float: left; font: 30px Georgia; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;">3</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Survey the spot of land you've picked out. In some states you are required to put a fence around the place you're dedicating. So, be sure to check with your county officials.</div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font: 14px/1.3em arial; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cfb.ca.gov/">link for permit info in CA to bury on your land</a></div></li>
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<li id="jsArticleStep5" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font: 14px/1.3em arial; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="stepNumber" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #c3c3c3; float: left; font: 30px Georgia; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;">5</div><span class="image" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/7u/o9/start-family-cemetery-1.5-800X800.jpg" rel="thinbox" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0074e8; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="#jsArticleStepImageCredit5"><img alt="Layout of burial plots" src="http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/7u/o9/start-family-cemetery-1.5-120X120.jpg" style="border-bottom: rgb(221,226,230) 1px solid; border-left: rgb(221,226,230) 1px solid; border-right: rgb(221,226,230) 1px solid; border-top: rgb(221,226,230) 1px solid; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Layout of burial plots" /></a> <div class="caption" id="nointelliTXT" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 120px;">Layout of burial plots</div></span><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When you file your dedication you will need to take a map to the plot. You will also need to make a diagram of how you will lay out the cemetery. Then, in the future, you will need to keep good records as to who is buried there and file those with the County Clerk for record. GPS is now an option.</div></li>
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I have done a bit of body disposal research and will be working on a cemetery project, which will be documented.<br />
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