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Connecticut has about 5,000 graveyards that serve as home to its ancestors and a solemn reminder of its history. But across the state, graves are falling into disrepair as earth, grass and weeds swallow markers that have become illegible with years of corrosion and neglect.
A group of historic gravestone enthusiasts joined this week to help reveal, and in some unearth, bits of history at one of the oldest graveyards in the state.
MIDDLEBURY — Members of the Middlebury Historical Society have gathered for more than a year to clean the gravestones of the “forefathers of the hamlet,” as described by Thomas Gray