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Submitted: 11/11/07 • Approved: 11/11/07 • Last Updated: 2/17/13 • R37547-G0-S3
The Scandinavian Luteheran Cemetery is just beyond this school,to the north. Village of Glen, Nebraska.
In the school year of 1998 – 1999, the children attending this school took on the project of cleaning and restoring the cemetery. It had overgrown with chokecherry and other bushes. The students removed more than 14 pickup loads of brush.
The four gravestones had fallen over and they solicited others to help reset the stones. There were some rotting wooden fences that they tried to save, but finally gave up.
After the cemetery had been cleaned, mowed, and the stones reset, a volunteer erected the new entrance sign. This volunteer was a relative of someone buried in the cemetery.
The students collected oral history concerning the cemetery and there was a suggestion that there may have been as many as 50 individuals buried here.
The students made a first class video program (VHS Tape) of their project.
Contributed on 11/11/07 by JimNebraska99
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