Compiled by The Bedford Citizen
Panels from the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt are hanging in the sanctuary of First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 75 The Great Road in Bedford through Sunday, December 13.
The public is invited to visit between 10 am and 3:30 pm each day and appreciate this unofficial American treasure.
Panels from the quilt have been displayed during December in Bedford for many years. According to Richard and Nancy Daugherty who unpacked and hung the quilt in the sanctuary of Bedford’s historic meeting house on Saturday afternoon, the panels would move among several venues in Bedford, but at present the quilt remains at First Parish during its visit.
One of the panels that visited Bedford in 2014 came because a young woman requested that her father’s panel be displayed here since it was the closest location to her home. Also that year, First Parish’s organist unexpectedly found a panel created in memory of one of his wife’s relatives.
Since 1987 the NAMES Project Foundation has been the custodian of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, using it to foster healing, heighten awareness, and inspire action in the age of AIDS. Panels from the aging, 54-ton tapestry are on display in nearly 1,000 venues each year. With more than 48,000 panels dedicated to more than 94,000 individuals, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is the premier symbol of the AIDS pandemic, an HIV prevention/education tool and the largest ongoing piece of community folk art in the world.
To learn more about the NAMES Project Foundation and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, visit www.aidsquilt.org.
First Parish is fully accessible using the building’s Elm Street entrance.
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