Brooklyn Students Spend Summer Digging Up Sunken Gravestones: ‘It Feels Like We've Achieved The Impossible'

CBS New York

August 20, 2021

Most summer internships include hands-on work, but for some teens in Brooklyn, getting a true education meant digging a little deeper.

On a hill in Green-Wood Cemetery, a group of students is digging up gravestones and restoring history.

“If you asked me what I was going to be doing in the summer, I wouldn’t think I would be doing this,” Williamsburg High School student Lucas Gonzalez said.

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