By RACHEL MAHONEY
The News & Advance
BEDFORD â One by one, the headstones in Bedfordâs cemeteries have started looking a little brighter. As she has painstakingly scrubbed off the moss and lichen, one local woman has found intriguing stories in the lives they memorialize â and her passion has recently attracted acclaim online.
It usually starts with a gentle scrape of some of the most caked-on growth. Then, Alicia Williams spritzes the stone with a special solution and uses a soft-bristled brush to scrub it down, sometimes repeating the process multiple times.
Old headstones whose names have been rendered illegible over time come out looking as good as new.
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RACHEL MAHONEY
The (Lynchburg) News & Advance
One by one, the headstones in Bedfordâs cemeteries have been looking a little brighter. As sheâs painstakingly scrubbed off the moss and lichen, one local woman has found intriguing stories in the lives they memorialize â and her passion has recently gone viral.
It usually starts with a gentle scrape of some of the most caked-on growth. Then, Alicia Williams spritzes the stones with a special solution and uses a soft-bristled brush to scrub it down, sometimes repeating the process multiple times.
And voila! The visual result is oh-so-satisfying: grizzled headstones whose names have been rendered illegible over time come out looking as good as new.
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