Episode 6: A Comfortable Building: Ashely Shares and the Restoration of the Women's Comfort Station at Oakland Cemetery

Update: 2023-01-23

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The painstaking restoration of the women's comfort station at Oakland cemetery illustrates many of the challenges... and rewards of the field of preservation. Presented by Ashley Shares, Director of Preservation, at the 2019 Georgia Municipal Cemeteries Conference, this presentation addresses both the fundraising, planning, and execution of a major cemetery preservation project.

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Episode 6: A Comfortable Building: Ashely Shares and the Restoration of the Women's Comfort Station at Oakland Cemetery

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Episode 6: A Comfortable Building: Ashely Shares and the Restoration of the Women's Comfort Station at Oakland Cemetery

Liz Clappin

Episode 6: A Comfortable Building: Ashely Shares and the Restoration of the Women's Comfort Station at Oakland Cemetery