Deegan, 70, helped lead efforts to rehabilitate a pair of overgrown cemeteries at the Danvers State Hospital near Boston, which housed people with mental illness before it closed in 1992. More ...

The southwest Iowa institution, called the Glenwood Resource Center, was closed this summer in the wake of allegations of poor care.The last of its living residents were moved elsewhere in June.

Until the Minnehaha County Abandoned Cemeteries Board, then known as the Forest Home Cemetery Board, stepped in. “I had a hard time finding that place,” said Steve Bott, a member of the board.

Driskell's Abandoned African American Cemeteries bill (originally HB 1215 and reintroduced in 2023 as HB 49) would have created an Office of Historic Cemeteries to coordinate research, ...