Firefighter Ken Haskell was off-duty on Sept. 11, 2001, when his two brothers, also firefighters, died in the World Trade Center.
Haskell's story of searching the rubble for his brothers' bodies is included in A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance from 9/11 Families and Friends.
rubbleNYC Firefighters Share Memories From Ground ZeroNPR: Arts & Culture Wed, 09/07/2011 - 08:00
Children's Book Finds Hope In Haiti's RubbleNPR: Arts & Culture Wed, 09/08/2010 - 22:00
Nine months after the quake in Haiti, Haitian-born author Edwidge Danticat is sharing the earthquake story with an audience that was largely shielded from it -- children. Eight Days is a book about a boy who gets buried in the rubble and is not rescued until eight days later. Wringing Art Out of Rubble in DetroitCulture - International Herald Tribune Tue, 08/03/2010 - 16:29
Detroit’s particular brand of civic and economic decay has also drawn something unexpected: a small but well-publicized movement of artists and other creative types trying to wring something out of the rubble. Library Renovation Gets UnderwayWisconsin Historical Society Mon, 07/06/2009 - 09:00
Power tools and hard hats outnumbered notebooks and backpacks last week as the long-awaited renovation of the Society library's main reading room began in earnest. |
