San Franciscos AIDS Memorial Grove inspires new Breast Cancer Memorial Garden [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — It may just be the quietest spot in San Francisco.

Aside from the ever-present chirping of Golden Gate Park’s many birds and the wind rushing through the towering redwoods above, one of the few sounds you may encounter at the National AIDS Memorial Grove is the sound of head groundskeeper Travis Mathews, tending to the very intentionally landscaped corner of the park.

“You move in and out of spaces of darkness and light, you go into the redwoods and it’s a darker space and then you come out into this meadow into the light,” said Mathews.

The National Aids Memorial is a place of meaning to so many, but especially to those in the LGBT community who gather here for remembrance and healing.