Abstract
IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, Celeste Bush banded together a small group of friends in rural Connecticut to place memorial tablets at historic spots and preserve a colonial home. Through her East Lyme Historical Society, she also planned to protect an ancient graveyard by reinterring the scattered remains in ordered plots and new coffins. Such a practice was common for women in the patriotic and ancestral societies, as in the case of those Virginia ladies who founded the nation's first statewide preservation organization and reburied the sacred ashes of their forebears in ritualistic
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