What a week for Lane Street Project! Wednesday, Homeschoolers Honoring Ancestors came to learn the history of Odd Fellows Cemetery and carefully clean headstones. Today, Greenfield School students, staff, and family fanned out across the cemetery to cut grass, lop vines, and haul debris for four solid hours. They were joined by the brothers of Beta Beta Beta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and officers of Wilson Police Department, who grilled hotdogs for all volunteers! This is community!

Beta Beta Beta is back and putting in work!

As soon as I arrived, these young men asked for an assignment. With Steve Manna, they cleared the area around the partially collapsed brick vault …

… and installed caution tape to warn others away from the opening.

Flowers for the cemetery’s founder, Samuel H. Vick.

This young lady nearly single-handedly mowed the entire front section, an immediate improvement in the site’s visibility from the street.

Piling debris onto tarps to drag to the curb. Our littlest volunteers had their own wheelbarrow for collecting pinecones and were a tremendous help in cleaning the fence of faded decorations.

In honor of Women’s History Month, flowers for Della Hines Barnes, whose headstone inspired the LSP logo.

The last — and maybe largest — of the big wisteria vines. Photographer Chris Facey gives you some notion of scale.

Cross section of a smaller wisteria vine. The growth rings are 1/2- to 3/4-inch apart.

Breaking for lunch.

Gathering “tumbleweed” to haul out. (Does anyone know the name of this fresh scourge?)

These young men uncovered another vault cover in Odd Fellows!

Hey, Adam Rosenblatt — the Senior Force now have copies of Cemetery Citizens!

Special thanks to Greenfield Assistant Head of School Steve Manna and Greenfield parent/Que Chris Johnson!