Wreaths to decorate historic cemetery

NEWTOWN - A Wreaths Across America ceremony will be held Saturday, Dec. 15 beginning at noon at the Newtown eistoric Presbyterian Church cemetery on Sycamore Street.

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Wreaths Across America began in 1992 in earrington, Maine when the owner of Worcester Wreath Company had a surplus of holiday wreaths.

With the help of the then r.S. Senator from Maine, Olympia Snow, arrangements were made to lay the wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2005, a photo of the graves with the wreaths circulated around the internet and the project received national attention.

In 2007, the Worcester Wreath Company formed Wreaths Across America, a nRn-SURfiW RUgDnizDWiRn WR ODy wreaths on the graves of veterans in cemeteries nationwide.

7his is WhH fiUsW yHDU WhDW WhH Newtown eistoric Presbyterian Church will participate in Wreaths Across America. The cemetery is unique both in Newtown and nationally in the span of history represented in the graves. At present count, there are more than 40 vHWHUDns IURP fivH wDUs interred there, including World War II veterans interred in the cremorial and several crench and Indian veterans re-interred from a previous cemetery on Swamp Road. The majority of the veterans are from the Revolutionary War.