Historic Gravestone Restoration & Preservation
Workshop Expert Instructor:
Jonathan Appell

Biography: Jonathan Appell is a gravestone conservator and monumental mason, performing gravestone preservation projects throughout the United States.  He been working in fields relating to gravestones and monuments for well over 20 years.  He became a modern monument installer and cemetery contractor in 1986, and founded the New England Cemetery Service, performing excavation, foundations, monument installation and monument repair. 

During the early 1990s, Jonathan became increasingly involved with the preservation aspect of historic graveyards and cemeteries.  He sought out and gained additional knowledge and training through all available sources, such as attending numerous workshops, conferences, studying sculpture and stone carving and extensive travels and reading. He now owns and continually enlarges an extensive library including many rare books pertaining to all related subject matter; historic masonry & mortars, geology, sculpture, archeology, cemeteries, & ancient construction techniques.

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www.gravestonepreservation.info