The Forgotten Dead
Special | 27m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
This local production sheds light on the history of marginalized Summit County residents.
From the mid-19th to early 20th century, the green space that is now Schneider Park in Akron, Ohio, was a cemetery attached to the county poorhouse, which housed elderly and disabled people of that era. To tell the story of the people who resided there, a local theater troupe of actors with disabilities reenacts what life would have been like for them back then.
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PBS Western Reserve Specials is a local public television program presented by WNEO
The Forgotten Dead
Special | 27m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
From the mid-19th to early 20th century, the green space that is now Schneider Park in Akron, Ohio, was a cemetery attached to the county poorhouse, which housed elderly and disabled people of that era. To tell the story of the people who resided there, a local theater troupe of actors with disabilities reenacts what life would have been like for them back then.
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PBS Western Reserve Specials is a local public television program presented by WNEO