The volunteers say they can only do so much to fight the rainforest’s creep. Some of them wonder what the city could do to help.
As they’ve begun unearthing old headstones, Kinville said Sam told them they have to be careful, and that’s something he wishes the city would help with.A confusing patchwork of land ownershipNearly 30 years ago, the City and Borough of Juneau conducted an inventory of historic gravesites that outlines
“The report that was done like 28 years ago only had five of the Native people recorded and three of the Asian people recorded,” Hasselquist said.They found one buried headstone by accident last fall when a volunteer’s rake screeched against it. “There was a family — they knew they had an ancestor buried there, but they didn’t know where,” Kinville said. “They bring flowers every year, and the kids come and help clean up and they leave a stuffed animal there.”“To come across these people, these connections, these stories — it’s like a form of time travel for me and gives me a sense of connection to the community,” he said.
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