Youth Preservation Award
The 2007 Youth Preservation Award goes to the Pepsi-Cola Kids Club, The Epiphany School, New Bern, Cille Griffith, adviser. This club’s entry, Fordham Forever!, is a cemetery preservation project. The club researched the abandoned Fordham family cemetery and learned that the cemetery contained graves dating to 1755. The project entry submitted to the association includes all of the junior historians’ research on the graves, as well as pictures documenting their many visits to the cemetery and their recommendations for future restoration.