Thirty five years ago, I was home in Honeoye after a particularly arduous semester at Nazareth College. I remember December 21, 1988 as an unseasonably warm day, memorable because an act of terrorism thousands of miles away took the lives of 270 people. Decades later, the saga, and the activism of families and friends, continues.…
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, the BBC has posted an essay, with extensive images, detailing the tragedy as told through the experiences of Lockerbie’s residents.
Reviewing a recent performance of Deborah Brevoort’s play, Women of Lockerbie, critic Matthew Palm writes: There’s a lovely sense of place in “The Women of Lockerbie,” the latest play at Rollins College’s Annie Russell Theatre. You can sense it in the way the characters talk about the Scottish village. His full review is available here.
There are a number of memorials dedicated to Pan Am Flight in and around Lockerbie. Perhaps the most well-known are the Memorial Room at Tundergarth Church and the Garden of Remembrance and Lockerbie Air Disaster Memorial, which is located in Dryfesdale Cemetery near the Dryfesdale Lodge Visitors’ Centre located roughly a mile west of Lockerbie.…
A crescendo of sound, a flash of light, and a vast cloud of flame precipitated the most horrific night of George White’s life. A lifelong resident of Lockerbie, George had served as a paramedic on the village’s ambulance squad for the past 28 years, yet the night’s chaos would push the veteran to the edge…
Note that the addresses for the victims’ material guides and finding aids have changed since I compiled this list in 2014. I am in the process of updating the links. In the meantime, a list of material guides can be found at this address: https://panam103.syr.edu/victims/index.php, and the finding aids are available here: http://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/search?brand=ead;collection=ead;f1-subjectLocal=Pan%20Am%20103%20–%20Victims%20and%20Families The following list contains…
Our thoughts are with the families of those lost on Malaysia Airlines MH17 today. Thoughts: July 19. Many of the images from the tragic downing of MH17 bear a disconcerting similarity to those of Pan Am 103 from so many years ago. Once again, an airliner disintegrated in midair; once again, hundreds of innocents became…
“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…
The Syracuse Remembrance committee has posted updated details on the five memorial services to be held on December 21, 2013, the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103. Services will be held in the following locations: Syracuse University — 2:03 PM in Hendricks Chapel Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA — 1:30 PM at…