Looking for Junior Partner

LOOKING FOR A JUNIOR PARTNER

Note from your neighbor, Kay Gilmour:

I am NOT looking for a replacement - I'm looking for someone younger than me who would like to become involved in preserving our cemetery and willing to share in some of the fun stuff we could do and eventually take over the reins.

For the past 20 or so years, the neighbors have looked to me as the keeper of the flame at the cemetery.  What that has amounted to has been to act as a  point person to collect information from the outside world, a coordinator of events, and an occasional guide for visitors.  This "leadership" position probably consumed about 8 hours of my time this past year.  Not a very strenuous task.

MINIMUM TIME PER YEAR as "Leader"

• 30 minutes to put out a couple of notices to the community for cemetery cleanup.
• 30 minutes of phone conversations with the lawn service that mows and weed-wacks.
• 10 minutes of phone conversations with the unofficial treasurer of St. Nicholas to make sure that the lawn service is being paid from the monies collected from neighborhood dues and Christmas Luminarias.  (They charge $100 per cut - about 10 times a year.)

MY OTHER "DUTIES" 

I have done the following just for the fun of it and out of general interest

• Given a talk to the Southern Genealogy's Exchange Society
• Attended meetings of the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Consortium as an unofficial representative of the St. Nicholas Neighborhood. 
• I will be giving  a talk at the Consortium's May meeting over at the Mudville Grill followed by a walk-through of the grounds. 
• Started the blog from the book written about the cemetery.

LONG TERM PLAN

I would really like to get our cemetery designated as a national historical site and placed on the National Register of Historic Places.