Cemetery restoration workshop

Archaeologist and conservator Dan Sumner Allen IV's series of free cemetery and gravesite restoration and conservation workshops will be 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 14, Aug. 28, Sept. 11 and Sept. 25 in Greenwood Cemetery on Garden Street in Columbia [Tennessee].

Read the article here. Too bad it's all the way across the US from me :P

Books are Dangerous, Citizen

mephron went to take the NY Waterway ferry from Hoboken, NJ to New York City. I quote from his LJ . . .

This morning, they're doing bag searches again to get on the ferry. And the guy doing the searches pulls me aside and says, "Sir, I feel that I need to confiscate this book."

I pause and say, in that tone of voice that most people would recognize as meaning, "have you lost your grip completely, chuckles?": "You need to confiscate... a book."

"Yes. I feel it's inappropriate for the other people on the ferry to be exposed to it."

Now, I had the book IN MY BAG. It was not open. [...] He gets all pissy at me and says, "Don't you understand this is for your safety?"

The book in question was a copy of "The Abyssals," a White Wolf Game Studios RPG book for their Exalted game, and mephron was allowed to finally carry it on the ferry after threatening to call the ACLU. Read the whole thread here.

I felt a brief chill, but the anger has quite burned it away.