Brooklyn Arts Council

For over 30 years Brooklyn Arts Council's folklorist, Dr. Kay Turner, has been documenting and studying various kinds of memorials and monuments. In 2005 she initiated an annual September 11 project centered on memorialization of that day. Projects have included a symposia, a photos exhibition, and a film series. Click here to view our new archive of these projects.

For 2008, the seventh anniversary of the attacks, Turner�s project is publication of the following essay and possible responses to it that may be posted on BAC's online Forum.

Much has been written and documented concerning the ephemeral memorials that filled the city in the wake of destruction and death on that day. Here Turner traces their legacy and relation to other folk expressions of mourning and remembrance. This essay is excerpted from a longer piece to be published in 2009.

September 11 Memorials: Tracing the Traces of Their History by Dr. Kay Turner
> BAC_Sept__11_Essay_Dr__Kay_Turner_2008-1.pdf (65.634 kb)

Sept. 11 Memorial Projs.