Strawberry Fields is a two and a half acre memorial in Central Park, created by Yoko Ono in honour of John Lennon following his 1980 assassination outside the nearby Dakota building. The name derives from the Beatles song, Lennon considered his best work, an impressionistic attempt to capture his childhood memories of playing in the gardens behind the Strawberry Field children's home in Liverpool.

The mosaic at the memorial's centre, donated by the city of Naples, bears the word "Imagine," and it has become perhaps the park's most visited spot. Weekly, musicians gather to perform Lennon's songs and those of the Beatles; if you visit on October 9th, his birthday, or December 8th, the anniversary of his death, you'll find fans singing well into the night.

Yoko Ono's vision transformed the space into an international tribute. Countries from around the world donated plants, creating a landscape of meadows, shrubs and trees, alongside daffodils from the Netherlands, cedars from Israel, maples from Canada and an oak from Great Britain.

VoiceMap's Central Park tours use Strawberry Fields to trace how a personal tragedy became a place of global remembrance, revealing the power of music and collective grieving.