The AIDS Memorial Quilt will head home to San Francisco, 32 years later

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There is an unavoidably heavy feeling when you stand quietly in the 4,500-square foot warehouse in Tucker where the AIDS Memorial Quilt is stored. All around are remembrances of lives lost, sewn into folded sections of the quilt stacked on shelves that reach a dozen or more feet high, along aisles that stretch some 75 feet toward a rear loading dock.

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The quilt is comprised of some 50,000 panels – 3-foot-by-6 foot – the dimensions of a grave. They are sewn into “blocks” measuring 12-foot-by-12-foot, usually of eight panels each. The panels bear the names of more than 105,000 people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses. Altogether, the quilt weighs 55 tons and if spread out completely, would span more than 1.3 million square feet.

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