As the excellent title suggests, this is a highly accessible historical, and technological gem from this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. You do not have to be acquainted with Milwaukee to enjoy it.

Please enjoy the two photographs as well.

"Long-dormant greenhouses again bloom life into cemetery"

Forest Home Cemetery once again is a place for the living, not just the dead.

Three abandoned, century-old greenhouses that years ago produced flowers to beautify the graves and grounds of the historic south side cemetery are being brought back to life, this time with vegetables.

Empty for nearly a decade because they became too expensive to heat through winter, the A-frame glass greenhouses will be used year-round by the organization Growing Power to grow thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables for city residents and others served by the nonprofit group, based on the north side.[...]