Dr. John Slavin gets ready for more weed whacking at private Woodland Cemetery in Henrico County. He has been volunteering every Sunday for 18 months to help clear overgrown grass, vines and trees and restore the historic, private African-American cemetery that dates to 1916.
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Woodland Cemetery, the burial place of humanitarian and tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. and thousands of other African-Americans, is looking spiffier, thanks to the dogged persistence of one man, John William Joseph Slavin.
