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Names Project AIDS Quilt Panels at Bobst Library, 9/12/19-12/15/19

"...the Quilt is a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. More than 48,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels — most commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS — have been sewn together by friends, lovers and family members. This is the story of how the Quilt began…"  MORE