The Enrichmond Foundation recently partnered with Howard Wellman Conservation, LLC to create a comprehensive preservation plan for Historic Evergreen and East End cemeteries. The historic cemeteries serve as the final resting place for thousands of individuals who faced segregation, discrimination, and racial violence while contributing in important ways to the city’s and nation’s social, political, intellectual, and religious life. Wellman, who began his career conserving archaeological collections from excavations such as shipwrecks and the colonial time period, brings 21 years experience as a conservator to the project.  Roughly half his work has been focused on historic cemetery preservation. In November...