Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Emails Description An account of the resource This collection contains emails which were sent or received on or around September 11, 2001. As of this writing individuals have submitted more than 1,500 correspondences. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. The day after disaster, and I thought I'd share a little more of one New Yorker's experience. That one New Yorker happens to be me. I didn't go to work today. The courts were closed, our phones at my office are still down (again, not because of the terrorist attack), and I didn't feel like doing much of anything. Cathleen and I watched TV for a while, listening to the excited reports of the recovery of only nine survivors. Last night our friend Seth called at midnight to let us know that he was fine. We knew that he worked in a law firm downtown, and I thought that he worked in Battery Park, a safe distance from the WTC. As it turns out, Seth's office window is directly across the street from the Twin Towers. And although he wouldn't have been at his office at 9:00 am, he happened to be in DC yesterday. Meanwhile, one of the doormen in our building is still missing a cousin, the cashier at the local pharmacy knows someone who is not accounted for, etc. I thought that Cathleen and I didn't know anyone in harm's way, and then I received emails from my ultimate teammates that one of our teammates who works downtown had not emailed yesterday to say he was safe (we had all been checking on each other). Later this afternoon I learned that he was fine, but that he literally found himself running for his life yesterday. Cathleen and I found ourselves going a little stir-crazy, so we decided to go for a walk downtown to see what we could see. We walked across 34th Street, and at one point a cavalcade of emergency vehicles drove by -- each one from a different town in Westchester County. The Empire State Building was completely sealed off by police barriers and police tape, and there are police, it seems, everywhere. We turned down 9th Avenue and ran into one of Cathleen's former co-workers, Kelly Cook, at around 20th Street. Kelly was with her brother and her brother's girlfriend. The girlfriend recently moved into an apartment on Greenwhich Street, about six blocks from the WTC. She was now locked out of her apartment because the police were not allowing anyone, except rescue personnel, south of Canal Street. You could get below Houston Street if you had ID indicating that you lived below Houston, but you can't get below Canal even with ID, even if you have pets to attend to. They told us that they saw one woman who went for a run this morning, only to find out that she couldn't return to her apartment when she was done. They were told that people won't be allowed to return to that neighborhood for at least a couple of more days. At 12th Street, Cathleen and I walked further west to West Street which runs along the western side of lower Manhattan. We walked along the bike path there and joined the hundreds, if not thousands, of other onlookers. At the intersection of Christopher Street, a gauntlet of people had gathered to cheer on every rescue vehicle that drove by. People held signs that said "You are our heroes" and "God Bless America." Two guys held up flags, one an American flag, the other a vintage "Don't Tread on Me." We wound our way down to Houston Street, the farthest down we could go. The sight was still unbelievable. The lower Manhattan skyline was still engulfed in a dark cloud of smoke. The Woolworth building would eerily disappear and reappear amidst the smoke. It used to be that you couldn't be that far downtown without the Twin Towers completely dominating your view. Now, it felt like looking in the mirror and not seeing your nose for the first time. We turned back east on Houston and by the time we got to Sixth Avenue we could finally smell the smoke and dust that we had been seeing for 24 hours. It didn't smell like a fire, but closer to what you'd think a collapsed building would smell like. As we continued walking east, the smell intensified at times, and some of the police stationed in that area were wearing airmasks. We passed by trucks laden with scaffolding lining the street for four or five blocks, and dumptrucks and excavators waiting to be used. In a police van, two or three policemen slept in the back seats. A reporter on TV just said "seeing it on TV is one thing, but seeing it in person is another." I don't know. It still seems remarkably unreal. When Cathleen and I returned home, we could begin to smell the smoke in our apartment and we were forced to close our windows. And so the story continues. - Rick September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 9/12/01 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients Many September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Rick Kahn September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Rick's Take: The Next Day Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource email618.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. unknown Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. yes Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-28 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 66.108.220.135