Emilia Teasdale is reporting in The Columbia Paper on the efforts in Kinderhook to restore that town's Persons of Color Cemetery in Rothermel Park. A re-dedication ceremony is planned for Sat., May 13. Thirteen legible headstones are all that remains of the cemetery, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Village historian Ruth Piwonka said there may be more than 500 people buried on the plot of land set aside in 1813 by village resident John Rogers. Rogers lived nearby on Broad Street and owned the land that would become Rothermel Park. He directed in his last will and testament that part of the land be used “for a cemetery for the people of colour in the said town of Kinderhook to use for that purpose and none other.” The surviving headstones, most of which mark the graves of children, are not in their original locations but have been moved over the years. The cemetery restoration group has a map of the original plot of land. The re-dedication ceremony will be held in Rothermel Park beginning at 11 a.m., Saturday. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.