Sit and feel the breeze upon your face, treasure each day, each breath, each friend, because… "Life is Sweet."
Lindsay Kyle was 26 and months from graduating when an impaired driver going 106 mph hit her car as she waited at a red light at Exchange Boulevard and Ford Street. Her family established the garden on the northeast side of Hartwell Hall in 2005, where Lindsay had most of her classes. Her mother, Sarah Palermo, has spoken for her ever since, and the garden has become a home for the names of others.
Read SUNY Brockport’s story about the garden and the students who keep it going →
Copper plant markers in the garden carry the names, years and hometowns of people RAID families lost, and of survivors.
Every spring, students in SUNY Brockport’s Rec Club clean and replant the garden after the winter, a tradition that has continued since Lindsay’s family established it. RAID families and STOP-DWI Monroe County volunteers gather there too, tending the markers and remembering the people they name. For this year’s date, follow RAID on Facebook or get in touch.
Join us in the garden this spring, or ask about a marker for someone you lost.
Rochester-area families who lost someone to impaired driving, working so no other family has to.
In honor of all those we have lost to impaired driving, and the families who carry them forward.
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