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The photos, poems or other remembrances from those gatherings are later included in the binder’s plastic sleeves.Ī three-ring binder contains memories of some of the people who have died over the past 17 years while experiencing homelessness in Lawrence or soon thereafter. A photo of the person who died is put out if they have one, and people share stories and thoughts about them. He said many of the people in the binder never had a formal funeral service, but across the street from the DARE Center, at LINK, they circle the chairs. One person in the binder had been homeless in Lawrence but had moved on and died elsewhere. Henderson said the binder was not a complete record of everyone who has died while experiencing homelessness in Lawrence since 2004, but that whenever those who work at DARE hear of someone, they bring the binder out. He said the binder started with those copies and includes people who died from 2004 to the present day. He said that originally the photos of those who had died hung on the wall of the Lawrence Community Shelter, but at some point someone took the photos down and made copies of them.
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Henderson was the longtime director of the Lawrence Community Shelter, but retired from that position in 2014 and now runs the DARE Center, a drop-in day center run by volunteers that gives people a place to do laundry, get snacks or coffee and access other resources. Next to one woman’s photo, a poem begins, “(She) stomped in khaki camouflage, proud and tall in her combat boots.” A poem next a photo of a man with long dark hair parted down the middle is titled “Miss me but let me go.” The poems included in the binder are ones that friends wrote following the deaths. “And the rest of the homeless community didn’t have a process - there was no way for closure on some of these relationships.”
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“It just seemed like the thing to do to be respectful of their memory because so many of them were estranged from their families and they didn’t have a process,” Henderson said. Henderson said that there is a story for everyone, and collecting them - for nearly 20 years now - just seemed important. Loring Henderson, executive director of the DARE Center, has been keeping the binder over the years, and has collected the tributes inside with the help of volunteers and people who knew those who died. For some there are no photos, and a few people are represented only by a name and a sentence from a death notice.
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Another is simply a head-and-shoulders shot of a pink-faced man wearing a new-looking Bass Pro Shops hat. One is a family photo of a man on his wedding day. Some are grainy photos that look like they were taken with an old cellphone camera. In another a man plays chess at a small table set up on Massachusetts Street. In one photo a woman grins widely like it’s a friend on the other side of the camera lens. In total, 31 people are included in the binder. The binder is filled with plastic presentation sleeves, and tucked inside them are copied photos of those who have died, poems written about them, snippets of obituaries, and, less frequently, a folded funeral program. The binder has been kept and added to over the past 17 years, and it is likely the most complete local record of those who have died while experiencing homelessness in Lawrence in that time. “… And then I realized that they were looking at this binder.” “I didn’t know what it was that they were looking at,” Masterson-Algar said. And then she saw that one of them was crying. When DARE volunteer Araceli Masterson-Algar walked into the building, she was not sure what was drawing people’s attention, but a small group that included people experiencing homelessness and DARE volunteers were focused on something laid out between them. It sits on a shelf at the DARE Center most of the time, but that day someone had brought it out, and it was open on the table. The cover of the blue three-ring binder is unadorned, its only marking the word “memories” written on the spine in simple black typeface. The three-ring binder has been added to over the past 17 years. Loring Henderson, executive director of DARE Center, and other volunteers have been adding photos, newspaper clippings and other information to a notebook in tribute to those who have died in Lawrence without a home.