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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…
Read More »The NYTimes reported on today’s remembrance ceremony for Flight 93, which crashed in a field after passengers fought the hijackers for control of the plane. Read the article by Katharine Q. Seelye, and get the NYT if you want more. The passenger rebellion, he said, “is the most important battle…
Read More »Note the Sept. 15 deadline for submission of photographs for the Sustainability Snapshots project of the City of Lowell’s Dept. of Planning and Development. Here are the details. What do you want to pass on to future generations? Share your vision of Lowell. Contest Overview Nearly ten years ago, the…
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