PHASE 1 Funding for Stabilizing the Methodist Church
Phase 1 of Stabilizing the Methodist Church and the Fouke Residence is paying for a structural engineer to create plans, so we can put a project out to bid. We are looking for $50,000 for this initial phase. The Methodist Church has started to lean significantly to the right, and backward as well. Perhaps one […]
Bodie Cemetery Gets New Life
By Donna Jones (article from Bodie Times, Spring 2011) At long last, the project to conserve grave markers in the Bodie cemeteries got underway in early September, 2010. Jablonski Building Conservation, an experienced and highly trained team of conservators, arrived to assess the various stone grave markers. By late October, a total of 28 stone grave […]
Sniffing Out Clues to Bodie’s Lost Graves
by Adela Morris & Lynne Engelbert (article from Bodie Times, Spring 2012) Little did anyone know when John Grebenkemper and his dog Tali visited Bodie in September 2007 that the seed of a strange partnership was about to be planted. John introduced himself to Terri Geissinger and explained to her that Tali was being trained […]
Keeping Decay Under Arrest for 50 Years
Fifty years ago, the State of California concluded negotiations with the J. S. Cain family and other landholders to acquire properties that make up the ghost town of Bodie. The state conducted an extensive “inventory” of the condition of each structure and developed a strategic plan for continued management of the town. The plan they […]
We are raising money to fund a Long Term Stabilization Plan (LTSP) for the next 10 years in Bodie
Our goal is to raise $50,000 by the end of the year to help State Parks fund this undertaking. WHAT IS A LONG-TERM STABILIZATION PLAN? A Long-Term Stabilization Plan (LTSP) IS NOT a thrown together list of buildings that look like they need work. It IS a gathering of all involved parties (Maintenance Workers in […]
Methodist Church – $75,000 NEEDED!
Bodie’s Methodist Church has been a reminder that not all were lost in the rough and rowdy mining town. In the last several years, the church has started to shift and lean north-west in a more obvious manner. This issue has become the number one priority for the State Parks Cultural Resources and Maintenance departments […]