A sweater, a journal, a board game, a ball cap: nondescript objects that, in a normal context, would warrant little attention. Yet each item, no matter how commonplace, no matter how seemingly mundane, carries with it a whisper of a life cut short by a distant tragedy. All of the objects listed now reside safely…
“Please accept this song from a total stranger.” Richard Newbegin Karen Lee, are you listening? Karen Lee, can you hear me? Are you there, can you see me? Let me know if you’re near me. The winter’s coldness blows, The warmth of you still glows. I wish that I could know who you were. Were…
Global Coverage of the 25th Anniversary Syracuse University complied a list of news outlets covering the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing. I appear briefly in one of the segments (CNY News). I still cringe when I see that portion—such is the price I pay for not following that tried and true Jordan tradition of…
“She was my birthday present.” Peggy Hunt. The Student Voice, November, 2003. Karen Lee Hunt would have been 46 today.
This past fall, students in the Web Journalism & Innovation class at Syracuse University’s Newhouse school created a multimedia website to chronicle the 25 year timeline of events precipitated by the bombing of Pan Am 103. Among the most poignant is the map of London highlighting haunts popular with students, the old Syracuse University London…
It was August when I last visited Webster as a means of honoring a vow to visit a meaningful place for the first time in 17 years. It was a to be the culmination of a new website created to finally articulate thoughts and memories that had lingered in near silence for 20 years. Three…