The Sonic Memorial Project

When Bill McDonald proposed to his wife, he first arranged luminaries in a pattern on the landfill across the street, then took her up to the top of the WTC to see the view.

Harold Levine was on his way to New York from Washington, D.C., on September 11. He describes flying over the towers at 8:30 that morning. Levine also remembers his participation in a run against violence up the stairs of the WTC.

Teacher Romolo Deldayo remembers the grade school and kindergarten graduation concert in June 2001 as the last pre-9/11 event at PS 234. The plane flew right overhead on September 11, one of the first days of school that fall.

Father Jeff Hurley tells how September 11 was his twin daughters' first time at the beach on Martha's Vineyard. He offers video of that day, before they heard the news, as a token of lost innocence.

An anonymous man from Idaho was heartened by Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central. During Stewart's first monologue after 9/11, he talked about the view from his downtown apartment--how he once looked out at the WTC but now had a view of the…

Eva Berry reads the prayer that "wrote itself through her" on 9/11.

Ray Szparagowski reads an excerpt from his poem about the U.S.

College student Henry Vick was awakened the morning of September 11 by the fear in his mom's voice as she left a message on his answering machine.

Mark Betyour recalls a wonderful evening of swing dancing at the Greatest Bar on Earth. The view from the 107th floor of the WTC made him think of an ethereal song called Talisman, by the French band, Air. He still has the matches he got from the…

Poet Mike Farrahey reads a piece he composed after 9/11.

Classical guitarist Andrew Schulman recalls his first steady gig at Windows on the World in late 1970s. The last time he played there was in July 2001.

Pamela Irvine was working at Deutsche Bank across the street when the first tower fell. She ran away through the debris.

Arthur Rouse, a producer and director of promotions for the World Trade Centers Association, talks about WTCA president Guy Tozzoli. He describes Tozzoli's vision of peace and prosperity through international trade.

On 9/11 Janice Stern, an office worker in Wall Street, walked home covered with dirt. She tried to reach her twin, who was in France, and received messages from her college-student daughter, who feared she had died.

John Eckstein was working at the WTC when the 1993 bombing took place. He describes being on CBS news at the time.

New Yorker Mary Lou Difilippo plays the voicemail she received from a friend that alerted her to the attack. She called the friend back but cannot remember talking to him afterward.

Songwriter Jim Lutz wrote One Mile in the Sky after 9/11. Here it is performed by musicians from Austin, Texas.

An anonymous man describes visiting the top of the towers. He considered them a masterpiece of our time.

Nadine Robinson was an artist in residence at the WTC in 2000. For her piece Tower Hollas, she interviewed security guards and maintenance workers about what they did, what songs they listened to at work, and how they liked their jobs.

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