cemetery cleanup

Lane Street Project: March 28 recap!

Another heart-filling service day at Odd Fellows Cemetery!

Special thanks to our out-of-town guests Will from Fuquay-Varina and Emily and her son Seb all the way from Brooklyn, New York!

Mark your calendars now for our April 11 and 25 service dates!

Photo courtesy of Chris Facey.

Lane Street Project: next service day — March 28!

March has been a fantastic month for Lane Street Project! First, we welcomed our friends from Greenfield School:

Then, Wilson City Council adopted a positive plan for Vick Cemetery’s near future, one that included the additional ground-penetrating radar we have long urged.

Please help us keep us the momentum going by coming out to Odd Fellows Saturday, March 28, at 10:00 A.M. for our next cleanup service day. Greenfield students made tremendous progress clearing dead brush and high weeds in the interior of the cemetery. We want to continue that work, which is especially important as warming weather awakens the wisteria that infests the space. We also need to mow the front section of Odd Fellows as the grass begins to green up.

A couple of hours of work by a couple of dozen people make a tremendous difference. We hope to see you Saturday!

Excerpt from “Greenfield volunteers support cemetery cleanup,” Wilson Times, 24 March 2026; photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, March 2026.

Lane Street Project: the March cleanups.

The weather has not been kind this cleanup season, but March is here with the promise of balmy weather. Our service days this month are the 14th and 28th.

We have specific goals we need to achieve over the second half of the season, and we encourage you to come out to lend a hand. There’s work for every level of ability, and we welcome you.

In preparation for a future project, we need to clip all the weeds and vines to the ground. Ideally, they should be low enough to keep them in check with a heavy-duty lawnmower.

We want to raze this clump of weeds between the Vick and Mincey plots.

We want to clear out the privet (the green stuff) and the dry weeds here. Try to avoid trampling the daffodils though, and watch out underfoot, there’s an old brick vault in this area.

We want to scalp this back to the tree line. Please don’t lean on grave markers.

Also, don’t cut the yucca. They were planted 100+ years ago to mark graves.

Any other little vine or sapling you see is fair game though.

Do you have a heavy-duty weed whacker? Perhaps with a brush cutter attachment? We really need your help!

Remember: SAFETY FIRST. Wear long pants and heavy boots or shoes. Gloves and goggles. There are tripping hazards at ground level, so please keep an eye out. Thank you!