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Past Issues
Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter 1981) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Friends and the Willows
• Quest
• Mt. Hope Rededication Day
• Remarks by Rowland Collins
• Henry A. Ward, Pioneer of Science
• Visitors
• Mt. Hope Trees

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Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 1981) (pdf format) (text format)

• David Andrews
• The Sartorial Cemetery
• The Gazebo
• The Association for Gravestone Studies
• Trees, Plain and Fancy
• George Washington Aldridge, The Big Fellow

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Volume 1, Number 3 (Summer 1981) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Glorious Fourth
• The Moorish Gazebo
• Alexander Milliner (1760-1865) - George Washington's Drummer Boy
• A Yew You Should See
• Two Special Visitors

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Volume 1, Number 4; Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1981 - Winter 1982) (pdf format) (text format)

• Barbara Rotundo to Lecture on Rural Cemeteries
• Gazebo Restoration Under Way
• And From Our Horticulturist...

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Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 1982) (pdf format) (text format)

• Gazebo Fund
• Spring Wild Flowers in Mt. Hope Cemetery
• Deputy Director's Report
  • Sylvan Waters Clean-up
  • Landscaping
• We Lose a Friend

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Volume 2, Number 3 (Summer 1982) (pdf format) (text format)

• Grove Avenue and New Chapel Tour
• The Third Annual Heritage Day
• New Garb for the Old Gazebo
• Trustees
• "All in all, I'd Rather be in Philadephia"
• Summer CETA Workers
• Tulip Tree
• AGS Convention

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Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1983) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Gazebo Restored
• The Wall
• Warming Hut
• Endowment Fund
• Annual Meeting, December 1982
• The Fountain, A Sesqui-Centennial Gift?
• John Harry Stedman
  Inventor and Beloved Citizen

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Volume 3, Numbers 2 and 3 (Summer/Fall 1983) (pdf format) (text format)

• Annual Meeting and Heritage Day
• Mount Hope's Features are Featured
• Major Projects and Face-Lifts
• The Cemetery Blossoms
• City Hall Exhibit of Photographs
• A Departure and New Arrival
• Memorial Day Observed

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Volume 3, Number 4 (Winter 1983-1984) (pdf format) (text format)

• Annual Meeting and Election of Officers
• Vandals Sentenced to Help Cemetery
• Sylvan Waters
• Warming Hut
• Volunteers Needed
• More Projects and Face-Lifts
• Another Cemetery of Interest
• Gideon Cobb - Pioneer

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Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 1984) (pdf format) (text format)

• Sesquicentennial at Mt. Hope
• Cemetery Projects
• Sesquicentennial Gardens
• New Treasurer
• Mt. Hope on TV
• Life Members Honored
• Warner Buildings in Mt. Hope
• Gravestone Repairs
• Gravstone and Graveyard Reservation and Preservation
• Pioneer Cemeteries of the Rochester Area

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Volume 5, Number 1 (Spring 1985) (pdf format) (text format)

• Fountain Restoration
• House and Garden Tour
• Alma Burner Creek
• Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse
• Monument Uncovered
• Annual Meeting
• Geological Mt. Hope
• Arbor Day at Mt. Hope

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Volume 5, Number 2 (Fall 1985) (pdf format) (text format)

• Restoration of the Florentine Fountain
• Annual Meeting
• House and Garden Tour
• An Appreciation
• Cemetery News
• Lewis Henry Morgan
• Types of Monuments in Mt. Hope

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Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 1986) (pdf format) (text format)

• John C. Clark III Honored
• Gravestone Studies
• Remember Me!
• Mt. Hope Trivia Quiz
• Bragdon Monuments in Mt. Hope
• Etymology, Anyone?
• Annual Meeting

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Volume 6, Number 2 (Fall 1986) (pdf format) (text format)

• President's Corner
• Early Rochester Burying-Grounds
• Mt. Hope Trivia Quiz
• The Celtic Cross
• The Language of Flowers
• Epitaphs of Mt. Hope Cemetery

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Volume 6, Number 3 (Winter 1987) (pdf format) (text format)

• President's Corner
• Epitaphs of Mt. Hope Cemetery
• Dr. Rush Rhees
• Col. Pond's Stelae
• Collins Gift

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Volume 7, Number 1 (Sping - Summer 1987) (pdf format) (text format)

• "The Cemetery Connection"
• Out of the Mouth of Babes
• The Marlatts - Turn-of-the-Century Rochester Artists
• President's Corner

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Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 1987) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Docile Contender of the Finger Lakes
• Century-Old Sculpture Unveiled
• Mt. Hope Prose

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Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 1988) (pdf format) (text format)

• President's Corner
• White Bronze Monuments
• Association for Gravestone Studies
• Charles Mulford Robinson

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Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer 1988) (pdf format) (text format)

• Praise for Our Gardens
• The Oak Hill Follies
• To Our Present Membership
• Historic Cemetery Celebrates "Sesqui"! - Mt. Hope Heritage Day, October 2

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Volume 9, Number 1 (Winter 1989) (pdf format) (text format)

• "Sleeper's City"
• Annual Meeting
• Dr. Hartwell Carver (1789-1875)

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Volume 9, Number 2 (Spring 1989) (pdf format) (text format)

• Adopt-a-Plot
• Oscar F. Williams (1843-1909)
• Silent Sentinels

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Volume 9, Number 3 (Summer 1989) (pdf format) (text format)

• Symbolism in Mt. Hope
• Epitaphs Found in Mt. Hope
• Hervey Ely - Prominent Pioneer

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Volume 9, Number 4 (Fall 1989) (pdf format) (text format)

• Taking to Higher Ground...and What an Eerie Sight!
• Franciszek Salezy Wolowski
• Symbolism in Mt. Hope
• Epitaphs Found in Mt. Hope
• A Special Night for Members
• Gazebo Needs Repairs

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Volume 10, Number 1 (Winter 1990) (pdf format) (text format)

• Annual Meeting
• Material Wanted for Archives
• Born on this Site
• Gatehouse Restoration
• Symbolism in Mt. Hope

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Volume 10, Number 2 (Spring 1990) (pdf format) (text format)

• Symbolism in Mt. Hope
• Walk for Multiple Sclerosis
• Civil War Statue
• Annual Conference
• First Interment

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Volume 10, Number 3 (Summer 1990) (pdf format) (text format)

• A Special Event
• Samuel D. Porter (1808-1881)
• Symbolism in Mt. Hope
• A Picnic and a Tour of Mt. Hope

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Volume 10, Number 4 (Fall 1990) (pdf format) (text format)

• Firemen's Monument
• Two Pioneer Cemeteries - Mt. Hope's Former Neighbors
• Mt. Hope's Gardens
• Symbolism in Mt. Hope

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Volume 11, Number 1 (Winter 1991) (pdf format) (text format)

• Another Special Tour
• Annual Meeting
• James Douglas Reid (1819-1901)
• National Gravestones Studies Conference
• Symbolism in Mt. Hope

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Volume 11, Number 2 (Spring 1991) (pdf format) (text format)

• Ice Storm Damage to Mt. Hope
• Captain William N. Hall
• Henry S. Potter: The Potter Monument
• Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti (1833-1910)

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Volume 11, Number 3 (Summer 1991) (pdf format) (text format)

• A Gifted Photographer Looks at Mt. Hope Cemetery
• The Creative Mind Behind the Mount Hope Cemetery Photographs
• You are Invited

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Volume 11, Number 4 (Fall 1991) (pdf format) (text format)

• A Thank You
• Special Events
• Silas Cornell (1789-1864): A Prominent Quaker in Early Rochester
• A Letter to the Editor

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Volume 12, Number 1 (Winter 1992) (pdf format) (text format)

• Legacy of the Civil War: The Story of Medal of Honor Winner Warren Carman
• Emelene Abbey Dunn (1859-1929)

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Volume 12, Number 2 (Spring 1992) (pdf format) (text format)

• Young Awakening in a Cemetery
• Sallie Holley (1818-1893)
• Symbolism in Mount Hope

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Volume 12, Number 3 (Summer 1992) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Architecture of Mount Hope Mausoleums
• Municipal Tree Conference

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Volume 12, Number 4 (Fall 1992) (pdf format) (text format)

• Refurbishing the Gazebo
• A Civil War Remembrance of Breveted Brigadier General Harrison Stiles Fairchild
• Rochester Inventors Tour

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Volume 13, Number 1 (Winter 1993) (pdf format) (text format)

• The D.A.R./S.A.R Plot and Its Monument
• Margaret and Henry
• William B. Stuber Memorial Window
• Association for Gravestone Studies Annual Conference

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Volume 13, Number 2 (Spring 1993) (pdf format) (text format)

• Landmark Society and Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery to Stage Major House and Garden Tour
• Friends of Mout Hope Plan Special Activities for House Tour
• Rare Chance to See Beautiful Landmark Houses

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Volume 13, Number 3 (Summer 1993) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Cemetery
• Epitaphs Found In Mt. Hope
• The Old Chapel and its Architects: Henry Searle (1809-1892) and Henry Robinson Searle (1836-1882)
• The North Gatehouse

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Volume 13, Number 4 (Fall 1993) (pdf format) (text format)

• Mount Hope Cemetery Subject of New Coffee-Table Book
• Grove S. Gilbert (1805-1885)
• Annual Meeting

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Volume 14, Number 1 (Winter 1994) (pdf format) (text format)

• Mount Hope Cemetery Receives Proper Publishing Recognition
• Election of Trustees and Officers
• AGS Conference

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Volume 14, Number 2 (Spring 1994) (pdf format) (text format)

• More Gatehouse Renovations
• Adopt-a-Plot
• Epitaphs Found in Mt. Hope
• A Water Supply for Mt. Hope
• Poem: Directive

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Volume 14, Number 3 (Summer 1994) (pdf format) (text format)

• A Reminder
• The Horticultural Tour
• An Unsung Anthony

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Volume 14, Number 4 (Fall 1994) (pdf format) (text format)

• Boy Scouts Lend a Hand
• Civil War Plot
• Lucretia Miller Lee: A Pioneer Woman

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Volume 15, Number 1 (Winter 1995) (pdf format) (text format)

• In Memoriam: Richard G. Brown
• Mt. Hope's Institutional Plots
• Something New
• Women's History Month
• Annual Meeting

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Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 1995) (pdf format) (text format)

• A sign of Spring: Gardeners at Work
• Benches Repaired
• Rochester Makes Baseball History With the Demon Pitcher, Richard Willis
• Cemetery Events

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Volume 15, Number 3 (Summer 1995) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Back Forty
• Frederick Douglass Gravesite
• Rochester's Baroness: Katharine Evans von Klenner

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Volume 15, Number 4 (Fall 1995) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Kidd Family and Monument
• Rudolph von Klenner: a Baron Turned Commoner
• Cemetery Happenings

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Volume 16, Number 1-2 (Winter/Spring 1996) (pdf format) (text format)

• Special Tour of Notable and Interesting Women at Mount Hope Cemetery on April 28
• Join the Crowd: Adopt-a-Plot
• Mt. Hope Chapel May Receive Facelift
• J. Foster Warner, Architect
• E. Clinton Wolcott: Saving an Historic Rochester Financial Institution

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Volume 16, Number 3 (Summer 1996) (pdf format) (text format)

• Another Trio of Special Tours, Even Better Than Before
• Building on Betty's Big Accomplishment: A Better Newsletter
• Special Offer on Coffee-Table Book: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo History Preserved
• Long Distance Connection: Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline Pankhurst
• Mount Hope Cemetery: A 196-Acre Classroom
• At Mount Hope, Shop Til You Drop (Some Money, That Is)

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Volume 16, Number 4 (Fall 1996) (pdf format) (text format)

• Major Monument Restoration in Mount Hope
• Mount Hope: New Home for Bluebirds?
• Cemetery Manager Retires; Inspired Leader Improved Mount Hope
• Children of a Legend
• Holiday Shopping at Mt. Hope
• Planning Meeting Focuses On Our Future

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Volume 17, Number 1 (Winter 1997) (pdf format) (text format)

• Boston Shorty AKA Morton Goldberg (1916-1996) One of the Greatest Pool Players
• How Minnesota Fats Got His Name
• Time to Book Elinor Klein and Her Very Popular Show
• The Man Who Invented the Five-Day Work Week
• Homes for Bluebirds in Mount Hope Cemetery Coming in the Spring

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Volume 17, Number 2 (Spring 1997) (pdf format) (text format)

• Houses for Rent Free to Bluebirds, No Sparrows Need Apply
• How to Double Your Contribution
• Fletcher Steele (1885-1971) One of the Great Landscape Architects
• Special Theme Tours: Free for Members
• Free Sunday Tours
• Announcing the Mount Hope Cemetery Photography Contest

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Volume 17, Number 3 (Summer 1997) (pdf format) (text format)

• Vulnerable Sculpture Project Complete
• 19th Century Jewish Leader Speaks About Mount Hope in 1860
• More Large Monuments Uprighted
• Chapel Chandeliers Restored
• A Pair of Special Fall Tours
• Double Exposure: Local Artists Works in MAG; Related Art in Mount Hope
• Proposed Sites for October 4 Tour of Mount Hope Cemetery

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Volume 17, Number 4 (Fall 1997) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Megiddos Wait in Mount Hope for the Prophet Elijah
• Mount Hope Cemetery Photo Contest Gala Opening: November 7. Don't Miss It.

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Volume 18, Number 1 (Winter 1998) (pdf format) (text format)

• Photography Contest A Big Success
• In Remembrance of Marjorie A. Ewell
• A New Cemetery Manager With Bold Plans
• Twelve Hundred Monuments Uprighted, and Counting
• Charles Paul Gruppe, Painter (1860-1940)
• How Mount Hope Cemetery Got Its Name
• Interior of the Megiddo Church at Thurston Road and Sawyer Street

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Volume 18, Number 2 (Spring 1998) (pdf format) (text format)

• Rochesterian Drowned in Titanic Sinking
• Rochester Remembers the Civil War With Cannon, Sculpture, and 399 Tombstones
• Committees That Do the Friends' Work
• We're Trying For Bluebirds Again
• Our Treasured Founder and Trustee, W. Stephen Thomas, Now in His 88th Year
• Sunday Tours Start May 3
• Special Theme Tours: A Membership Bonus

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Volume 18, Number 3 (Summer 1998) (pdf format) (text format)

• Women's Rights: The Mount Hope Connection
• Volunteers Needed to Present Slide/Tape Program
• Helen Ellwanger, Preservationist
• New Tour Guides Receive Training
• Friends of Mount Hope Introduce New T-Shirt
• Gatehouse Receptionist Wanted

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Volume 18, Number 4 (Fall 1998) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Woodmen Societies and Their Presence in Mount Hope Cemetery
• How the Killick Family Faced Cholera
• John V. (Jack) McKinney (1921-1998): A Personal Remembrance

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Volume 19, Number 1 (Winter 1999) (pdf format) (text format)

• Mount Hope Cemetery Celebrates 160 Years
• Lars Larson: Leader of First Norwegian Emigration to America
• Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940) Founder of the United States Visiting Nursing Service
• Dick Miller's Painted Posts

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Volume 19, Number 2 (Spring 1999) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Heinous High Falls Murder
• Reading for a Wake
• Gertrude Herdle Moore: Longtime Director of the Memorial Art Gallery
• Regular Sunday Tours Resume; Special Tours for 1999 Announced

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Volume 19, Number 3 (Summer 1999) (pdf format) (text format)

• High Drama in Mount Hope
• Oliver Culver (1778-1867): A Rochester Pioneer
• Kodak Volunteers Clean Up Mt. Hope Cemetery
• Note From the President
• In Mount Hope Cemetery
• First Wedding in Mount Hope Cemetery

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Volume 19, Number 4 (Fall 1999) (pdf format) (text format)

• A Rochester Invention: The First Machine Gun
• The Civil War Relived in Mount Hope
• Plant Sale Bonanza
• RMSC Players Stage Nine Performances of Cemetery Drama

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Volume 20, Number 1 (Winter 2000) (pdf format) (text format)

• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Celebrate 20 Years of Progress
• William S. Kimball: Inventor, Master Marketer and Civic Leader
• Heritage Foundation Formed for Mount Hope
• Two Cemetery Buildings Prepared for Future Roles

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Volume 20, Number 2 (Spring 2000) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Tragic Death of Henry Lee Selden
• Rochester's Speaking Stones
• Edwin Scrantom Writes a Letter That is Opened 127 Years Later
• A Festival of Special Theme Tours From June to October
• Guide Training Program
• RMSC Players Return with Drama in Mount Hope

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Volume 20, Number 3 (Summer 2000) (pdf format) (text format)

• Mount Hope Cemetery Gardens
• Alphonse Kolb, Renowned Sculptor

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Volume 20, Number 4 (Fall 2000) (pdf format) (text format)

• "I'm Staying Here All Night." The Vigil of Marcena Ricker, M.D., Susan B. Anthony's Doctor
• Rochester Mayor Visits Edwin Scrantom (1803-1880) in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Colonel Nathan Patchen Pond: Civil War Commander/Rochester Printing Company Founder
• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Celebrate 20-Year Anniversary

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Volume 21, Number 1 (Winter 2001) (pdf format) (text format)

• Gideon Cobb (1791-1864): Early Rochester Pioneer, Brickmaker, and Developer of Monroe Avenue
• George Henry Harris (1843-1893) Rochester's Henry David Thoreau (Part 1)
• Edwin, Clara and the Strasenburgh Planetarium: A Personal Recollection
• Ravine Avenue Restored By Volunteers
• Take A Look At Our New Website

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Volume 21, Number 2 (Spring 2001) (pdf format) (text format)

• George Henry Harris (1843-1893) Rochester's Henry David Thoreau (Part 2)
• A Eulogy for Private Henry Clay Carr
• Death of a Soldier: Charles D. Howell (d. 1862)
• Automobiles Begin Driving on Mount Hope Cemetery Roads
• Special Theme Tours for 2001

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Volume 21, Number 3 (Summer 2001) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Hollister Family
• Sidney Hall, Expert Boilermaker, Killed in Bartholomay Brewery Boiler Explosion
• Special Showing of Mount Hope Exhibit at University of Rochester
• Kodakers Spruce Up Mount Hope on "Day of Caring"
• If You Like Mount Hope Cemetery, Join Us

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Volume 21, Number 4 (Fall 2001) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Man Who Brought Frank Lloyd Wright to Rochester
• "Blessed the Ties That Bind": The University of Rochester Section in Mt. Hope Cemetery
• Symbols in Mount Hope Cemetery

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Volume 22, Number 1 (Winter 2002) (pdf format) (text format)

• Frank Gillespie: Bringing Mt. Hope Cemetery into the 21st Century
• Ely and Lulu McAllaster Buell, Colorful Personalities
• Friends Founder, W. Stephen Thomas, Dies at Age 92

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Volume 22, Number 2 (Spring 2002) (pdf format) (text format)

• The Averys and the Stantons, Family Ties That Bind
• Special Theme Tours Announced, one Saturday Each Summer Month
• Letter from the President
• Five Higgins Children: "We Loved Them."
• Do You Want to Adopt-a-Plot?
• Moving to a New Address? Don't Leave the Epitaph Behind
• Past Issues of the Epitaph Now on New Website
• If You Like What You Read in This Newsletter...

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Volume 22, Number 3(Summer 2002) (pdf format) (text format)

• Beware of the Water: Sidney Joseph Lovecraft's Two Ordeals with Water
• Microfilm Cemetery Records Now on Computer CDs
• Shards
• United Way Day of Caring at Mount Hope Cemetery
• Friends Volunteer in Garden Center Plant Sale
• Institutional Plot Maps in Mount Hope Are Redrawn by Volunteer

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Volume 22, Number 4 (Fall 2002) (pdf format)

• William Warfield (1920-2002): Renowned Baritone and America's Musical Ambassador
• A New Book Celebrates the Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Civil War Tour a Great Union Victory
• High Drama in Mount Hope Cemetery
• TLC Properly Attributed

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Volume 22 [23], Number 1 (Winter 2003) (pdf format)

• The Legacy of Harriet Bentley (1885-1918), Founder of the Harley School
• Paul Malczewski (1962-2002): Tour Guide and Friends Trustee
• Misguided Scavenger Hunt

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Volume 22 [23], Number 2 (Summer 2003) (pdf format)

• Two Major Exhibits at Mount Hope Cemetery Gatehouse
• Death at Sea: The McCraken Family and Their Losses Aboard Steamship Arctic
• President's Report, 2002
• Engraved Memory

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Volume 22 [23], Number 3 (Summer 2003) (pdf format)

• Mt. Hope's Other Weary Pilgrim: Louis Lewisson Monument
• Historic Gravesite Discovery by Jean Czerkas
• Rosetta Douglass Sprague (1839-1906)
• Molded Metal Markers in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Reenactment of Frederick Douglass Funeral
• Theater in Mount Hope: RMSC Players Schedule Shows
• Special Tours Free to Members

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Volume 22 [23], Number 4 (Fall 2003) (pdf format)

• Mount Hope Gardeners Win Top Award
• The Wray Family in Mount Hope Cemetery
• New Members of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Civil War Tour Another Success for Union Forces
• New York State Grant Pays for Restoration of Two Significant Monuments
• Mount Hope: Then and Now
• New Book Published on Rochester's Megiddo Mission

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Volume 23 [24], Number 1 (Winter 2004) (pdf format)

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Geology of Mount Hope Cemetery
  • Pleistocene Geology
  • Pinnacle Range Geology
  • Geology of Mount Hope Cemetery

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Volume 23 [24], Number 2 (Spring 2004)(pdf format)

• Descendant's Day: A Very Special Event in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Susan B. Anthony's Family, Friends and Neighbors in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Mount Hope Sunset: A Poem
• Dr. Joseph C. A. De Neve, Surgeon to Napoleon, Was Present at Napoleon's Surrender
• Volunteers Needed
• Civil War Monument Restored
• Lorenzo Hill's Last Journey
• The Peripatetic Life of Blanche Stuart Scott
• Mt. Hope Cemetery: Then and Now
• Thomas Hastings: "Composer of Rock of Ages"

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Volume 23 [24], Number 3 (Summer 2004)(pdf format)

• A Day in Mount Hope
• Descendant's Day: A Very Special Event in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Letters to the Editor: Descendant's Day
• "Stories in Stone" Makes its Debut
• Mount Hope Cemetery: Then and Now
• Kudos to Keith, Valued Volunteer

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Volume 23 [24], Number 4 (Fall 2004) (pdf format)

• Mount Hope Cemetery As a Museum of History
• Our Child, Edwin
• First Registered Nurse in New York Honored
• Letters to the Editor
• A Wonderful Gift for a Cemetery Fan
• Trustees of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
• New Members of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery

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Volume 24 [25], Number 1 (Winter 2005)(pdf format)

• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Celebrate 25th Anniversary: Part One: The Beginning
• Rochester Orphan Asylum Fire
• Henry S. Hebard, Monument Maker
• Report from the Howard Hughes Gravesite

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Volume 25, Number 2 (Spring 2005)(pdf format)

• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Celebrate 25th Anniversary: Part Two: The Gazebo Project and More
• The Tragic Story of Donald Mann
• John Church and his Father, Mother, and Sister in their Eccentric Plot
• Mark September 17 on Your Calendar for Friends 25th Anniversary Victorian Picnic

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Volume 25, Number 3 (Summer 2005) (pdf format)

• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Celebrate 25th Anniversary: Part Three: The Friends Organization Grows in Sophistication
• Friends of Mount Hope Travel to Buffalo
• Join Us for a Gala Victorian Picnic

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Volume 25, Number 4 (Fall 2005) (pdf format)

• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Celebrate 25th Anniversary: Part Four: The Last Decade; The Friends Diversify
• Friends of Mount Hope Stage a 25th-Anniversary Gala Victorian Picnic
• Contest Winners for Adopt-A-Plot Gardens
• Edward W. Merrill (1843-1915) First Market Master of the Rochester Public Market

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Volume 26, Number 1 (Winter 2006) (pdf format)

• Lucy Read Anthony and Daniel Anthony
• The Sweet Sixteen: Ladies Arrested for Voting with Susan B. Anthony
• Symbolism on Pre-Need Gravestones
• The Funeral of Susan B. Anthony
• Membership Matters
• Anthony Funeral and Cremation Chapels: A Sponsor of the Friends Silver Anniversary Picnic

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Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2006) (pdf format)

• Join Us on a Trip to Mt. Albion
• 2006 Season Begins with Special Susan B. Anthony Tour
• Now, Free Tours Every Saturday and Sunday
• Success of an Orphan: The Beginnings of Rochester's Clothing Industry
• Zinc (White Bronze) Grave Marker Class
• Mount Hope Cemetery Spring Wildflowers in 1838
• 2006 Saturday Theme Tours

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Volume 26, Number 3 (Summer 2006) (pdf format)

• Henry A. Ward and the Midas Mining Company, Montana Territory, 1865-1869
• The Midas Mill as Described by the Montana Post, November 16, 1867
• Buying the Book
• The Fiery Death of Thomas Rathbun
• Special Saturday Theme Tours

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Volume 26, Number 4 (Fall 2006) (pdf format)

• City Staff Repairs Florentine Fountain
• Historic Event in Mount Hope: Record Crowd Attends Artists Tour
• Van Vechten Family Touchstones

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Volume 27, Number 1 (Winter 2007) (pdf format)

• Lyman B. Langworthy (1787-1880): The Man Who Named Mount Hope Cemetery?
• Our First Ever Luminaria Tour
• Walter H. Hubbell (1850-1932) Prominent Rochesterian, First Eastman Kodak Counsel, and Christian Gentleman

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Volume 27, Number 2 (Spring 2007) (pdf format)

• Rochester's Atomic Legacy: Robert and Ruth Marshak --A Couple United Through Science
• John Allen, 11th Mayor of Rochester, 1844
• In Memory of Tish McKinney (1916-2007)
• A Full Season of Great Mount Hope Cemetery Tours
• The Murder of William Lyman
• Another Mount Hope Monument by Tiffany Studio, New York City

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Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer 2007) (pdf format)

• The Strong Family of Rochester, New York
• Engaging Tour Celebrates Jewish Roots in Rochester
• Prominent Ukrainians Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Letitia McKinney Eulogized at Friends Annual Meeting
• New Tree Replaces Falled Fernleaf Beech

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Volume 27, Number 4 (Fall 2007) (pdf format)

• Sarah Adamson Dolley (1829-1909): First Female American Doctor, Leader of Social Change
• The Rau Mausoleum Restoration: Your Membership Dollars at Work

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Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2008) (pdf format)

• Thillman P.J. Fabry (1857-1926): Wood and Plaster Sculptor
• The Old Chapel/Crematory
• Cemetery Bluebird Trail Report

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Volume 28, Number 2 (Spring 2008) ( pdf format)

• Samuel L. Lattimore (1828-1913)
• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery 2008 Tour Season
• Friends Field Trips: A Review of Syracuse 2007
• An Unclaimed Jewel: Age 28 and Holding

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Volume 28, Number 3 (Summer 2008) ( pdf format)

• Why the "Florentine" Fountain?
• The Wilbur-Coon Family
• Gatehouse Slate Roof Replaced, After 134 Years

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Volume 28, Number 4 (Fall 2008) ( pdf format)

• The Story of the Founding of Wagner College in Rochester
• Minnie Snyder Buff's Ceramic Gravestone
• Hyman and Jeannette Komesar's Gravestone
• Screech Owls at Mount Hope

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Volume 29, Number 1 (Winter 2009 ) (pdf format)

• The Origin of the Rose Quartz Monument
• Wiliam T. Clarke (1859-1930) Photographer of 19th Century Pennsylvania Lumber Camps
• Wagner College Honors Founder, Johann Georg Wagner
• A Walk in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Bluebird Report for 2008
• Mount Hope Becomes a Certified Wildlife Habitat

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Volume 29, Number 2 (Spring 2009) (pdf format)

• Mount Hope Cemetery Cultural Landscape Report and Tree Inventory/Management Plan Completed
• Henry Brewster Palmer (1887-1917): Rochester's Original Fly Boy
• Digitizing the Plot Books

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Volume 29, Number 3 (Summer 2009) (pdf format)

• The Wile Family: Pioneers in the Clothing Industry
• Volunteers Clear Foliage at Lewis Henry Morgan Mausoleum

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Volume 29, Number 4 (Fall 2009) ( pdf format)

• 22 Norwegians Trace Route of First Norwegian Immigrants
• Peter Palmer and Sons, Fireworks Masters
• John Sleight DuBois

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Volume 30, Number 1 (Winter 2010) ( pdf format)

• Lieut. John B. Snyder Receives His Military Headstone 108 Years Late
• Lecture Series at Public Library open to the Public
• The Seven Piers at the South Entrance to Mt. Hope Cemetery
• Flying Squirrel Found in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Winter Tours of Mount Hope Offer Escape From Cabin Fever

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Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2010) ( pdf format)

• Federal Grant Will Restore Mount Hope Cemetery Entrance
• An Outstanding List of Theme Tours for 2010
• Our Ugly Wall Project is Launched
• Saving America's Treasures Week, April 5- April 9
• Leaaded Glass Window in Old Chapel Removed for Safe Storage

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Volume 30, Number 3 (Summer 2010) ( pdf format)

• Friends of Mt. Hope Collaborate with World of Inquiry School #58
• City Reorganization Moves Cemetery Administration to Environmental Services
• Ugly Wall Project Continues with Success

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Volume 30, Number 4 (Fall 2010) ( pdf format)

• The Mushrooms of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Ugly Wall Update
• New Membership Levels for Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Epitaph Newsletter Available by E-mail
• Friends of Mount Hope Publish New Book
• Friends of Mount Hope Sponsor Essay Contest

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Volume 31, Number 1 (Winter 2011) ( pdf format)

• May Fielding, the White Slave Girl
• Journey to Japan: William Bemis Draper and the Telegraph
• Winter Tours Offer Brisk Walks in Clean Air, Fascinating Sights, and Interesting Stories

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Volume 31, Number 2 (Spring 2011) ( pdf format)

• Jacob Hiram Meyers, Brilliant Inventor of the Voting Machine
• Friends of Mount Hope Annual Meeting
• Beverly Waugh Jones: Lesson in Political Courage
• New Crematory in Mount Hope

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Volume 31, Number 3 (Summer 2011) ( pdf format)

• John Harry Stedman: His Busy Life and Weird Inventions
• Major Renovations at Mount Hope Cemetery's North Entrance Near Completion
• Sales Soar for New Underground Railroad Book
• Historic Mount Hope Streetcar

Volume 31, Number 4 (Fall 2011) ( pdf format)

• The Spanish-American War and Mount Hope Cemetery
• Mount Hope Cemetery North Entrance Area Renovation Update
• Stained-glass Windows repaired on 1912 Chapel
• Fashion Photography in Mount Hope Cemetery

Volume 32, Number 1 (Winter 2012) ( pdf format)

• LEonard Henkle (1834-1904): Extraordinary Inventor
• Thanks to Ugly Wall Contributors
• Frank Gillespie (1936-2012), Special Friend of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Thanks to Contributors to Fitch Mausoleum Repair

Volume 32, Number 2 (Spring 2012) ( pdf format)

• New Book from the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Announce an Exciting Diverse 2012 Tour Season
• Percussion ROchester Honors Alexander Millener, Drummer Boy for General George Washington
• Highlights from Our Annual meeting, April 17
• Marilyn NOlte Wins ESL Jefferson Awards

Volume 32, Number 3 (Summer 2012) ( pdf format)

• Florentine Fountain Restored and Painted
• Annual Plant Sale Yields $531 for Friends
• Friends Investmenet Funds Now Managed by Rochester Area Community Foundation
• Guided Waking Tours of Mount Hope Cemetery Every Saturday and Sunday
• City of Rochester Announces New Volunteer Program
• Friends Receive Farash Grant
• Friends Seek Grant to Develop a Tree Maagement Plan for Mount Hope Cemteery

Volume 32, Number 4 (Fall 2012) ( pdf format)

• Mount Hope and Buffalo Bill Cody
• The Revolutionary War Tour: A Dramatic and Musical Adventure
• Torch Light Tours Reveal Sinister and Weird Stories of Mount Hope Permanent Residents

Volume 33, Number 1 (Winter 2013) ( pdf format)

• Emily SIbley Watson, Founder of the Memorial Art Gallery
• Friends Receive Grant for Tree Management Plan
• Friends Receive $721.40 From ROC the Day
• The Dove

Volume 33, Number 2 (Spring 2013) ( pdf format)

• Leighton Bridge & Iron Works
• Annual Meeting Highlights
• Take a Cemetery Tour or Two This Summer

Volume 33, Number 3 (Summer 2013) ( pdf format)

• 175th Anniversary Issue: Timeline
• The Reverend Algernon Crapsey: Rochester's Heretic
• Sales Soar for New Underground Railroad Book
• Mount Hope Celebrates 175 Years (1838-2013)

Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2014) ( pdf format)

• Ray Hylan--Aviation Pioneer
• Arsonist Burns Frederick Douglass House and Barn, June 3, 1872
• Comments
• Why does DeWitt Clinton Get All the Credit for the Erie Canal?

Volume 34, Number 2 (Spring 2014) ( pdf format)

• A Cornucopia of Summer Walking Tours
• Meet the Theme Tour Guides

Volume 34, Number 3 (Summer 2014) ( pdf format)

• Seth Green: Founder of the Fish Hatchery

Volume 34, Number 4 (Fall 2014) (pdf format)

• Notable Germans in Early Rochester
• German Poet Honored in Schiller Park
• Boomtown Brothers' Bearded Beach Bash Raises Money for Friends of Mount Hope

Volume 35, Number 1 (Winter 2015) (pdf format)

• George Ellwanger: A Man of Horticulture. A Man of Heart

Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring 2015) (pdf format)

• Take a Cemetery Tour This Summer
• 2015 Theme Tours
• Charles Force Hutchison: Eastman Kodak Scientist and University of Rochester Philanthropist

Volume 35, Number 3 (Summer/Fall 2015) (pdf format)

• Path Through History
• Scot Souls Find a Home in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Recent Improvements in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Major Achievements of 2015
• Splendid Plans for 2016
• A Visionary Rochester Police Officer: The William M. Lindner Story
• Carlo, Recently Restored, Takes a Truck Ride

Volume 36, Number 1 (Winter 2016) (pdf format)

• Major Restoration of Civil War Monument

Volume 36, Number 2 (Spring 2016) (pdf format)

• Mount Hope Cemetery Welcomes Impressive New Glazer Memorial
• Morris Seligman Family and the University of Rochester
• 2016 Theme Tours; 2016 Guided Walking Tours
• Meneely Bell Company, Troy New York

Volume 36, Number 3 (Fall 2016) (pdf format)

• Thomas W. Boyde, Jr.: Rochester's First Black Architect and his Decorative Masterpiece, Monroe Community Hospital
• Path Through History Event at Mount Hope Cemetery
• Knowles Family Plot Restored in Mount Hope
• Friends Fundraiser Tops $7000 with 124 Participants
• Sylvan Waters Gets a Rehab

Volume 37, Number 1 (Winter 2017) (pdf format)

• Hiram Bond Everest

Volume 37, Number 2 (Spring 2017) (pdf format)

• 2017 Summer Tours

Volume 37, Number 3 (Summer 2017) (pdf format)

• Sylvan Waters Has a Fresh New Look
• The Georgraphy of Mount Hope Cemetery
• 2017 Cemetery Improvement Projects

Volume 37, Number 4 (Fall 2017) (pdf format)

• Myron Holley: Portrait Sculpture Completed
• Mount Hope Cemetery Now Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
• Scottish Souls remembered in Mount Hope
• Two Famous Sculptures Cleaned and Preserved
• Gazebo Restoration Nearly Finished

Volume 38, Number 1 (Winter 2018) (pdf format)

• A Major New Book from the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery
• Ron Richardson's Flying Camera
• Donald S. Hall
• Lewis Henry Morgan: A Mile in his Footsteps (Part One)

Volume 38, Number 2 (Spring 2018) (pdf format)

• Lewis Henry Morgan: A Mile in his Footsteps (Part Two)
• Marilyn Nolte Retires from FOMH Presidency
• New Officers of The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery

Volume 38, Number 3 (Summer 2018) (pdf format)

• Rochester's Greatest Seed Empire: The Crosman Brothers Company
• Lewis Henry Morgan: A Mile in his Footsteps (Part Three)

Volume 38, Number 4 (Fall 2018) (pdf format)

• Lewis Henry Morgan & the Pundit Club (Part Four)
• Photo Walkers Explore Mount Hope Cemetery
• Beautiful Mount Hope Cemetery

Volume 39, Number 1 (Winter 2019) (pdf format)

• Remembering Nancy Harris Quackenbush
• Cleaning Stones in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Bluebird Trail

Volume 39, Number 2 (Spring 2019) (pdf format)

• Temples on the Lawn: Mausoleums in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Cradle Graves Come Alive Again
• Fraternal Organizations in Mount Hope Cemetery
• Bausch & Lomb Grant

Volume 39, Number 3 (Summer 2019) (pdf format)

• New Egyptian Pyramid Mausoleum in Mount Hope
• Undertakers, Wakes, and Tears

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