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“The Names” Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into…
Read More »Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor wrote the following essay three years ago, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. He’s allowing us to post it once again: Seven years ago today, I was teaching a class at Greater Lowell Tech as a few hundred miles south of us, men guided…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My daughter-in-law’s cousin Peter Goodrich, 33, of Sudbury died on Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower. It seems that almost everyone in Massachusetts is connected in some way with one of the victims…
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Read More »On this day September 11, 2001: …in 2001, American Airlines pilot John Ogonowski made the familiar drive from his farm in Dracut to Logan airport. He was sorry he would miss a special event scheduled for later that day. Federal officials were coming to inspect the work of Cambodian immigrant…
Read More »Within days of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, I sat down with a pencil and a yellow legal pad and made some notes about what had happened. There were no blogs back then so I never shared them with anyone. While cleaning out a drawer this summer I found…
Read More »I saved some of the front pages in the days following the 9-11 terrorist attack. Here’s a video that shares the headlines from that collection: [youtube]mdPa0G-Rg1w[/youtube]
Read More »Monument to the University of Massachusetts Lowell community (alumni and family members of alumni) who perished on September 11, 2001: Patrick J Quigley IV, Christopher Zarba, Jessica Leigh Sachs, John A Ogonowski, ’72, Robert J Hayes, ’86, Brian K Kinney, ’95, and Douglas A Gowell, ’71. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Just back from the morning dog-walk in the South Common under a sky that is not quite as crystalline clear as it was ten years ago, but close in its blue from east to west. With the late summer rain the grass is as green and thick as you would…
Read More »9/11 . In their Catholic high school, John one day sat down for lunch next to a quiet kid who needed a big friend, and the quiet kid grew up to be a teacher and never forgot what it meant to have that new friend—he told people about his friend John, the…
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