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Californian Barbara Hill tells that Dey Street--one of the streets bordering the WTC site--was named after her ancestors. It should be pronounced Dee, in the Dutch way.

As a child Jake Nichols saw the WTC being built. His dad told him, These buildings will last 1,000 years. They will be here forever. As it turned out, he has outlived them. Nichols also rings a Tibetan bell in remembrance of a Tibetan prayer ceremony…

Yellow Cab driver Saul Rothenberg talks about his route from JFK to Manhattan and how he always pointed the WTC out to passengers who were new to the city.

A Michigan man calls to recommend including something about Minoru Yamasaki, the Detroit-based architect who designed the WTC. The man also wrote a poem called "Demystify Death."

Frederic Vogel, producer of theatrical performances at the WTC plaza, talks about how the program represented the philosophy of the WTC management by showcasing a cross-section of NYC culture.

Englishman Daniel King was an ESPN commentator for the World Chess Championship final, which took place on the WTC observation deck on September 11, 1995. The match was between Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand.

Edward Ioffreda's sister-in-law was at jury duty downtown on 9/11. The panicked voicemail message she left him about what she saw reminded him of the Hindenburg disaster.

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…

Rich Costa was general manager of the observation deck at 2 WTC from 1996 to 1999. He has video footage of a corporate breakfast above the cloud line on the 107th floor.

Katy Kirby, a TV producer for a news magazine, tells about the camera and soundmen shooting video on 9/11. She recommends trying to track down some of these stories and suggests the possibility of a collaboration.

Brooklyn resident Ralph Snemo's wife used to work at the WTC. He has video footage that he made in 1995 or 1996 of a concert in Austin J. Tobin plaza and in the elevator.

New Yorker Suellen Epstein lives three blocks from the WTC and saved the telephone messages she received on 9/11.

Wickham Boyle, a journalist who lives 10 blocks from the WTC, heard the first plane fly over and saw the second one from her roof. She picked up her son and 12 of his friends from school while the towers fell. She has written a book, A Mother's…

North Carolinian Bobby Avery's son works as a chef a few blocks from the WTC. She plays the message she received from him on 9/11, in which he describes feeding hungry rescue workers.

Pam Ritter talks about her husband, who worked in the WTC in the 1970s and used to measure the sway of the buildings.

Caroline Smigocki found herself crying as she watched the WTC on 9/11. She then experienced a beautiful, typical New York City moment, when a stranger on the street advised her to get it together.

Former PATH train rider Amy Rose Bloomfield recalls the eerie noises in the plaza that were caused by the wind going down the façades of the towers.

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.

Anthony Bruno, a ham radio operator from Massachusetts, talks about visiting Radio Row--which was on Cortlandt Street before the WTC was built--when he was a kid. He recommends the publication, Antique Radio Classified.

Brooklyn native Tony Mattera talks about how he used to go early in the morning with his dad, who worked in the Washington Market and Radio Row area. He describes the world there and the shops.