Stitched Deaths: Sadako Sasaki

(d. Oct. 25, 1955)

Left behind on a bench at Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI.

Quote is a Basho haiku:
A caterpillar
this deep in fall --
still not a butterfly

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Stitched Deaths: Ricky Wilson/Matthew Shepard

(d. Oct. 12, 1985/98)

Left behind in the bushes near the I-95 highway on-ramp, Allens Ave, Providence.
(in tribute to Roy Weber)

Quote is from the film, Philadelphia.
It's the translation of the Umberto Giordano aria "Andrea Chenier"
"Live still, I am life. I am divine. I am oblivion. I am the god that comes from the heavens and makes of the earth a heaven. I am love! I am love."

Stitched Deaths: Edgar Allan Poe

(d. Oct. 7, 1849)

Left behind at the fountain in front of the Providence Athenaeum.

Quote is his last. In a delirious state, Poe called out the name, "Reynolds!" over and over again while held in a prison-like hospital. A man of words, he was reduced to near incomprehension in his last days.

Stitched Deaths: Anne Sexton

(d. Oct. 4, 1974)

Left behind on the gate of the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library after a performance at the Aviary Gallery in homage to the poet.

Quote is from "Letter Written on a Ferry Crossing Long Island Sound"
"I am surprised to see/that the ocean is still going on"

  

Stitched Deaths: Carson McCullers

(d. Sept. 29, 1967)

Left behind at Cricket Field in Greystone, RI on the edge of a pond.
(The frog saw everything.)

Quote:
" Son, do you know how love should be begun?A tree. A rock. A cloud."
- Carson McCullers, from the short story - A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.

Stitched Deaths: Steven Stayner

(d. Sept. 17, 1989)

Left behind at the Hathaway Center, Providence, RI

Quote is from the film, Magnolia:
"It's dangerous to confuse children with angels."
 

Stitched Deaths: Mary The Elephant

(d. Sept. 13, 1916)

Mary was hanged from a crane in front of 2,500 people (some children) in Erwin, Tennessee.

Pillow was hung from the railing on the steps of the Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, RI.

Quote:  
" For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men." - passage from Moby Dick.

Stitched Deaths: Christy Brown

(d. Sept. 7, 1981)

Left behind at (or rather, gifted to) Ada Books, Providence, RI

Quote is from the film, My Left Foot.