SitemapIt warms Annette Brown’s heart to see a once-abandoned and dilapidated cemetery with overgrown grass and large fallen branches come back to life — and to hope for the burial of a few faulty assumptions.
“This has been a labor of love over the years,” said Brown, who is part of the Mount Hope Veterans Memorial Cemetery committee.
She was referring to a wide array of restorations, maintenance projects and improvements to the cemetery, 1945 Liberty Road on the East Side, along with the hope that some people’s widely held assumptions that no one is caring for, or doing anything to improve it, will finally be laid to rest.
Suffice it to say that both hopes likely will carry plenty of weight, because Brown and a few dozen others gathered for a special celebration and ribbon-cutting event Tuesday afternoon in front of the cemetery entrance to usher in the progress and improvements.
Many such changes were evident by what was not seen: Nearly 100 dead trees and countless branches had been cut down and removed from the property, Ian Beniston, the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.’s executive director, noted.
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