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'Cemetery citizens' are restoring marginalized burial grounds in Connecticut

NPR | By Meg Dalton
Published May 25, 2026 at 4:02 PM EDT

There's a volunteer movement to rehab overgrown cemeteries. We visit one in Connecticut, where "cemetery citizens" provide TLC to neglected plots.

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