Volunteers gathered at Dorchester's Loesch Park in one of the first tree plantings to remember lives lost to COVID. It kicks off a tour of tree plantings in cities like New York City, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
As Tiffany Williams put the finishing touches on her planting of a tree in Dorchester’s Dr. Loesch Family Park on Wainwright Street last Friday, it was an exercise in celebrating a new life, and remembering one lost. For her, adding a tree in the park was about creating a living memorial to her mother, Jacqualine Williams, a Dorchester woman who was one of many who died during