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Benjamin and Michelle Barshay got married at Windows on the World in 1985, and they live and work in the area. They considered the WTC to be their backyard. They have video of the scene outside their windows on 9/11.

The band Brother was scheduled for two concerts in Milwaukee on September 12, but the first one was cancelled. Band member Angus Richardson tells how the band spent the early part of the day jamming and writing the piece 911. The concert that took…

Kim Smith, a producer from Texas, has DAT tape of performance artists and poets taking part in an exhibit about September 11. She offers to collaborate.

Les Robertson, the WTC structural engineer, explains how the acceptable sway for the building was determined.

The musical group that Terry Platz belongs to performs a song to the tune of Scarborough Fair using words from a sonnet by Shakespeare. She says those lyrics can be quite chilling in light of 9/11.

Tayloe Skelton reads a poem he wrote after 9/11.

In 1982, radio producer Lou Giansante recorded a number of interviews with people at the World Trade Center. Here, he speaks with a Taiwanese man.

Sy Denby, who owned a store on Radio Row, talks about the romance of radio. He and his friends were in it because they loved it.

Sy Denby, who owned a parts business on Radio Row, introduces himself and talks about the neighborhood's early days.

Swing dancer Robert Omelia videotaped many of the dances that were held at Windows on the World.

Recording artist Suzi Schuenemann wrote songs on September 12.

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal. A year later she listened to the tape and talks…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…