Initiative aims to restore dignity to overgrown cemetery

This is a story about what the living owe the dead and – more specifically – what Cincinnati owes the thousands of people buried in an overgrown portion of West Price Hill called Potter’s Field. “They’re the forgotten people,” said Mary Jo Bazeley, a volunteer who has been working for 20 years to clean up edges of the 26-acre site. “I was raised in the country, in Clermont County, and people that have preceded us are treated with great respect,” she said. “And when you come here – these are people, these are human beings – and yet, I don’t feel that they are treated with the same respect.” A new effort called the Potter’s Field Initiative aims to change that.