Volunteers preserve history and life in burial grounds

Volunteers preserve history and life in burial grounds

WRITTEN BY JEN LYNDS W. John Funk, president and trustee of Stewards of the Western Cemetery, said that although their voices were silenced hundreds of years ago, the dead are still excellent historians. “Their voices are reliable, and they have a compelling story to tell,” he said in a recent interview. “It just takes more digging to find their story.” The Western Cemetery is in Portland, with its main gate at Vaughan and Clifford streets. It s…