Posted on June 26, 2018

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Students in UNCG interior architecture's summer field school work with a mechanical tripod to suspend a gravestone in order to repair it. The students repaired and cleaned gravestones at Graves Cemetery on Portsmouth Island as part of a class in Field Methods in Preservation Technology in May.

Restoring gravestones in an old fishing village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina – it’s not your typical classroom experience. But for 10 students in UNC Greensboro’s IAR 555 (Field Methods in Preservation Technology), the three-week field school was transformative.

See the rest of the story here. https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/interior-architectures-preservation-field-school/

Story by Elizabeth L. Harrison, University Communications
Photography courtesy of Jo Leimenstoll, UNCG Interior Architecture

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