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rfmcdonald) wrote2017-10-31 12:33 pm
rfmcdonald) wrote2017-10-31 12:33 pm
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[PHOTO] Three photos from the Necropolis Chapel, Toronto
The Necropolis Chapel is a lovely small quiet building located near the southern entrance of the Toronto Necropolis cemetery in Cabbagetown. I find it a lovely space to sit, and reflect.
Besides the architecture, on this visit I was struck by one particular memorial, purple flowers highlighting the memorial plaque of Paul Noble Bartlett, born in 1955 and died in 1988. What, I wonder, was his story? The bare bones idea of a Toronto man who died, so early, in his 30s back in the 1980s brings the HIV/AIDS epidemic to my mind, but different searches have turned up nothing apart from memorials to his parents, dead two or three decades later. What was his story? Who placed those flowers there?
Besides the architecture, on this visit I was struck by one particular memorial, purple flowers highlighting the memorial plaque of Paul Noble Bartlett, born in 1955 and died in 1988. What, I wonder, was his story? The bare bones idea of a Toronto man who died, so early, in his 30s back in the 1980s brings the HIV/AIDS epidemic to my mind, but different searches have turned up nothing apart from memorials to his parents, dead two or three decades later. What was his story? Who placed those flowers there?