Last year, I cited an article detailing the possibility that Suse Lowenstein’s Dark Elegy had finally found a permanent home. Though the plan to place the sculptures in Montauk’s Kirk Park fell through, several Remembrance scholars approached her with the idea of petitioning Syracuse University to create a permanent home for the work. The petition…
The Daily Orange has several excellent stories about Dark Elegy, the candlelight service, and Carol King-Eckersley’s connection with parents and Syracuse University (King-Eckersley, the mother of Kenneth John Bissett, only learned last year that the son she gave up for adoption in 1967 was lost over Lockerbie). I leave for Syracuse after my morning class…
Dark Elegy might have a permanent home. “‘Dark Elegy,’ a sculpture created by Suse Lowenstein of Montauk to depict the grief of those, like her, who lost loved ones in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, could find a permanent home at Montauk’s Kirk Park.”