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2007 SOK Vol 34 Cemeteries Documentation and History

Cemeteries Documentation and History Bob Sam an extremely sensitive subjoct, intro. slides of Russian Orthodox cemetery. What inspired Bob to restore grave sites. 3:00 backhoe destroyed sites. 5:00 reinternment. 6:00 500 people showed up for reburial. 8:30 Bob on crutches at grandfather’s grave. 12:00 sound failure for 5 secs. 13:00 saddest site (destroyed grave sites) 13:50 Sitka Jack’s gravestone. 14:55 Bob begins to heal. 17:15 became the man I am today. 19:30 Metropolitan Theodosis gave Bob an award for restoration of the cemetery, one of the highest honors by the church. 23:45 (How he lifted the gravestones: found the biggest Tlingit.) 25:45 vandalism. 27:00 young man enlisted to help lifted his grandfather’s headstone (same name). 30:00 David Davis Sr. headstone; 32:00 Annie Watson headstone. 36:15 the more the cleanup, the less vandalism. 39:00 Paul Liberty (1886-1970) gravestone. 42:0 end slide show, back to Bob. 44:00 People from all over the world come to visit the grave sites. 48:30 Q&A. 50:30 Estimate of over 100,000 people buried in Sitka. Restored ANB , SJS, Presbyterian Board of Missions, many of the ancient traditional cemeteries (behind village), all over SE Alaska, re-intro’d people back to their loved ones, particularly those taken by government and relocated (they are coming back). A life work I really, really enjoy. 52:00 something tangible. 55:00 kudos from audience member. 56:30 kudos by Ethel Lund (sound very faint). 59:00 Kadashan (Bert Adams) (sound very faint). 1:01:00 Bob describes a fast, drinking devil club juice only, no sleep for four days, fourth morning, walked out had vision of elders crying, whipping their backs with yellow cedar boughs mourning a body that was placed in a canoe that someone jumped into, who looked back, “And that was me.” People don’t walk into the forest, they need help, escorts to the other side. “This is why I do this work, made everything OK. Walked back into the house and looked at the recliner: that was me.” 1:05:00 hopes to find a young man as successor.