Adam Honigman

Mozart's clarinet concerto came on KUSCs (California) morning program today. I can remember you learning to play and perform this piece on your clarinet with our father Saul, a NY composer, Canadian born on the piano. I very much associate that piece of music with you and feel strongly you were very much sensed when it played this morning. When you passed away 14 years ago 10/16/07 , it was the day before my oldest daughter Alexandra's 10th Birthday (10/17) which is also our mother...

Dear Uncle Adam,

I am sorry you never got to meet me or my younger sister Olivia who is seven. My 11th Birthday is today which I share with your mom and your mom's sister Aunt Beverly's daughter Joy who all were born on October 17th. We plan to plant a tree - a "Wonderful" variety Pomegranite tree in your memory. They are beautiful, have non-invasive root systems, like to be left alone, and bear a ton of great fruit. Your younger sister, Lisa (my mommie) told us stories about how your...

hey adam,

is that you up there taking a peek under your glasses at this web book, just the thing you may have ordered from the internett pointing out how one more tree can stay alive.

...was that you stomping over the soft fallen leaves up in the dark clouds, shedding crystal tears to grow from.

....wait, i do believe i see your intense inquisitive face peeking up from the garden floor where the leaves, as well as all of us return to as an offering to the little compost...

I knew Adam through my work with community gardens in NYC. Although most of my memories are of his speeches, testimony and writings in support of the need for community gardens, as well as the need for community gardens to serve their communities --- but, my favorite memory of Adam is from a an early, cold morning in the South Bronx when he showed up to help transplant shrubs and trees for a garden being 'relocated' nearby. His enthusiasm, dedication, and insight are greatly missed.

Adam, on this the one year anniversary of your death, know that your Father, Canadian born composer Saul Honigman and American born Sandra Honigman loved you very much.

Adam was my older brother,son of Saul and Sandra,Uncle to nieces Alexandra and Olivia and brother n' law to my husband David. We are all saddened by this loss . I have lost a sibling but gained a nephew in Daniel.

Adam had became a friend last year when I visited New York to discover more about guerrilla gardening. For four hours we talked and walked around Hell's Kitchen and he impressed on me his passion, vision and humour. He kindly gave me two of his treasured books and I so very much wanted to return the favour when I next visited. It is a terrible loss for everyone that Adam has moved on.

Dear Daniel,

I do not belive we have ever met since you were about 5 or 6.
I was a friend of your fathers for more than thirty years.
I just learned of his passing a few days ago.
Adam was a dear person, fun, thoughtful, knowledgeable, and
one hell of a curmudgeon!
Which in his youth was a wonderful trait.
I have many tales and if you would like to meet sometime I'd love to share those years I first knew him with you.
All my love and condolences to you and yours.

I am grateful for all that Adam did for the community, particularly for his help and encouragement in founding the Dewitt Clinton Park Conservancy. His passing is a real loss and I reach out in sympathy to his son.