Historic cemetery to be preserved digitally
On the south side of University Drive, there is a manicured three-acre cemetery, complete with shining headstones and flowers. On the north side, there is another two-acre cemetery, which from the outside appears to be a line of bushes, a single bench and a field full of collapsing headstones.
The contrast between the city-owned Odd Fellows and Brush Arbor cemeteries convinced assistant professor of anthropology Jordan Lynton Cox to create an MSU field school dedicated to digitally archiving the history of the latter. She, along with three other anthropology and archaeology faculty, will use a nearly $350,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Grant for the project.
