Editor,
On behalf of the City Cemetery Commission and residents and travelers on Highway 62, I thank the First Christian Church of Eureka Springs Men’s Group for all the time and physical labor over the past few weeks that the group has put into clearing up the iron fencing along the cemetery’s highway boundary. Special thanks to Pastor Golaway for coming to the commission with the offer to help, and coordinating the work of the Men’s Group.
Because the tangle of brush, weeks, honeysuckle, and poison ivy (as some of you discovered first hand!) the fence had been mostly hidden and overlooked for many years. Your group revealed it to be not just an old overgrown fence that seemed to be falling down in places, but the stalwart and attractive guardian of the cemetery’s entrance and boundary that it was intended to be when it was first installed so long ago.
The Cemetery Commission would have been hard-pressed to pay for all the man hours of work your group contributed. That work would very probably have gone undone for some time to come.
There is the old saying that “you have to see it to appreciate it.” The FCC Men’s Group made it possible for people to see the cemetery fence and they certainly are appreciating it.
Bob Thomas