Full Text of HR0490 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to recognize the 25th anniversary of the | 4 | | Evergreen Cemetery Walk, created to bring attention to the | 5 | | importance of preserving and respecting cemeteries; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In 1995, an innovative educational program was | 7 | | proposed that combined history and theater to
address the issue | 8 | | of cemetery vandalism, particularly at Evergreen Memorial | 9 | | Cemetery, Bloomington's oldest cemetery; the idea took form in | 10 | | a meeting between the McLean County Museum of History and the | 11 | | McLean
County Arts Center
and came to fruition with the | 12 | | partnership of the Illinois Voices Theatre-Echoes and the | 13 | | Evergreen Memorial Cemetery; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The Evergreen Cemetery Walk began with the mission | 15 | | of
preventing further vandalism by teaching the community about | 16 | | the historical importance of
cemeteries using the voices of the | 17 | | very people who are buried there; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, The Evergreen Cemetery Walk began as a single | 19 | | weekend and four school days of performances; today, it serves | 20 | | over 3,000 people each year over the course of
eight days; over | 21 | | the past 25 years, not only has vandalism been significantly | 22 | | reduced, but over 78,000
people have attended the event; since |
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| 1 | | its inception, the
event has featured the voices of 183 | 2 | | different people whose stories illustrate
the impact the people | 3 | | of McLean County have had on local, national, and global | 4 | | scales; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, The Evergreen Cemetery Walk is an
award-winning, | 6 | | nationally recognized interpretive program and has helped | 7 | | start cemetery walks throughout
the country; this would not | 8 | | have been possible without the collaboration between these | 9 | | groups and the thousands of hours of volunteering that they, | 10 | | along with the community, provide each year; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 12 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | we recognize the 25th anniversary of the Evergreen Cemetery | 14 | | Walk, created to bring attention to the importance of | 15 | | preserving and respecting cemeteries; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to the McLean County Museum of History, the McLean
| 18 | | County Arts Center,
the Illinois Voices Theatre-Echoes, and the | 19 | | Evergreen Memorial Cemetery.
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