[NEWS] Remembering Philadelphia's homeless

Violinist Shandi Beardsley played Pachebel's Canon in D Minor, a personal favorite, as volunteers took turns at the microphone reading the names of 127 homeless and formerly homeless people who died in Philadelphia in 2013.

About 200 people had gathered at Thomas Paine Plaza, in the shadow of City Hall, with candles and signs bearing the names of the fallen. Beardsley cried as she played, moved by the pathos of the moment and her own situation. Beardsley recently lost her home in West Chester and custody of her 3-year-old daughter. Although she never lived on the streets, she felt empathy for those who had died there.