Equipped with a sturdy small brush and a large pump sprayer, Caitlin Abrams paused before two contrasting burial sites in a quiet cemetery in western Vermont. Autumn colors blanketed a nearby hillside beneath low-lying gray skies.
A year ago, Abrams carefully restored the headstone of Mary Bailey, who died in 1852 at age 21. That gleaming white marble marker now sharply contrasted with the adjacent grave of her sister, Eliza, which remained coated in decades of accumulated grime and moss.
