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Ted Olcott, a retired director of planning for the Port Authority, was involved in the initial planning for the WTC and PATH trains. He volunteers to read an account of his experiences. It was published after 9/11.

In October 2001 filmmaker Kelli Feigley recorded a two-minute video poem on the Brooklyn Bridge called My Brother the City.

Birder Rebekah Creshkoff was working on a study about migratory birds flying into skyscrapers at night. She recorded her findings at the WTC.

Songwriter Eric Douglas, who lost a friend in the WTC, wrote a song the day after 9/11. It's called If You Were Gone Today.

Maria Solario and her sister, who both live in downtown Manhattan, tried to reach each other on 9/11. They saved their phone messages.

Rosemary Jane calls from England to recommend The Voice of Freedom, a song by the British-Pakistani teen singer Sarah Francis that incorporates a speech by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

Alun Williams, director of the Triangle Artists' Workshop, describes videos made of workshops that took place at the WTC in 1998 and 2000.

Bernard Mendelow tells of two 9/11-related coincidences that he experienced. After the attack, he left his office five blocks from Ground Zero and ran into his daughter, who had also been evacuated from her downtown office. Later, someone in Brooklyn…

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.

Kevin Scott, a San Antonio fire captain, wrote a song called 911 for firefighters killed on that day.

Brooklyn cartoonist Josh Neufeld tried to track down his wife and describes what he did on 9/11. He later did a comic book with 80 other artists called 9-11: Emergency Relief.

Anita Glesta lived across from the WTC. On 9/11, as she tried to get her kids from their school, her husband was looking for them. The family dog, Angel, was later rescued by a U.S. Army general.

New Yorker Seth Richardson plays the message he received from his wife when she was trying to reach him on September 11.

Artist Rachel Terp had a show about American identity after 9/11.

Blake Wallis is a canine search specialist from FEMA's Indiana Task Force 1. He and his dog Scout worked on a rescue team on 9/11.

Songwriter Joe Louden tells about the song he wrote called Good to Cry.

Brooklynite Kristen Worrall taped the towers falling from across the water and got people's reactions. The next day, she went to a Manhattan hospital to document the aftermath of the tragedy.

Judite Dos Santos videotaped people running away from the WTC on 9/11. The recording also captures the sound of Dos Santos crying.

Mark Rossmeisel, who photographed the collapse of the towers from Fifth Avenue, offers to provide the pictures.

New Jersey resident Tom Reingold talks about the voicemail he received on 9/11 from his upset girlfriend, who described what was happening.