Jen Young noticed A Neat One from The NYTimes on Columbia University’s 9/11 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project.
What began as an effort to record history while it was fresh became more than that. It turned into an extended journey into the nature of memory itself, and a testament to the enduring power of the oldest, simplest human communication form: one voice in a room, telling a tale of how it all came down.
“I was less a historian than a participant,” said Temma Kaplan, a professor of history at Rutgers University who did 18 interviews. “I wanted to be comforted, and confronted, not quite a voyeur but to be part of what was going on.”
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