I recently started (and more recently quit) a job in Rockville Centre, NY, a small town on Long Island. Near the office building where I worked was a nice little park. Neatly tucked in the back of the park near some stone benches was a simple granite memorial, dedicated to the people from Rockville Centre who died in September 11. It listed a couple dozen names, including several firefighters. I have become intrigued by it, and have begun to wonder how many small towns and suburbs have erected similar memorials. I haven’t dusted off my camera in a while, and thought they would be an interesting photo study. I have a couple months before I start school again, so I would love to spend a week or two traipsing about Long Island, Westchester, and even Jersey ( :eek: ) to observe them.
My ometown of South River, N.J. has one. It’s down on Daily’s Pond, on the side opposite Prospect Street.
But, heck, I’m pretty sure there are towns in New England with 9/11 memorials.
More than one, actually. There’s an engraved stone at the waterfront (directly across from the Manhattan site) bearing the names of those killed, and the names were also engraved on an (existing) fountain in the Journal Square area (closer to the center of the city). We apparently have a controversy brewing over a new sculpture our former (deceased) mayor had commissioned as well.
Here is one a few miles from my house.
Bump.
Not yet, but they’re working on it downtown at some place they refer to as “ground zero”
