Emilia Teasdale is reporting in The Columbia Paper someone put flowers on the graves at the Persons of Color Cemetery in Rothermel Park in Kinderhook last month. That unknown person placed at least one or two fresh flowers by each gravesite shortly after the white supremacist and Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent, the weekend of Aug. 12. The cemetery has more than a dozen headstones dating from the 19th century. Hollis Seamon, who lives next door and is a member of a group restoring the cemetery, said she has noticed more people have been visiting of late. Kinderhook Village historian Ruth Piwonka said more than 500 people may have been buried at that location. The land was set aside in 1813 by village resident John Rogers in his will. Rogers designated the land be used “for a cemetery for the people of colour in… Kinderhook to use for that purpose and none other.” Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.