The Daily Orange has extensive coverage of last week’s events. Highlights include feature articles on remembrance scholar Taylor Miriam Henry’s unique connection to Miriam Luby Wolfe and a thoughtful, retrospective piece on the retirements of Judy O’Rourke and Ed Galvin. Judy and Ed played key roles in establishing and maintaining connections with Lockerbie and developing…
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…
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…
Today’s edition of Syracuse.com features Alexander Lowenstein, one of the 35 DIPA students killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103, and the intensely moving and personal nature of the material his parents donated to the Archives at Syracuse University. His mother, Suse Lowenstein, created the Dark Elegy in the aftermath of the disaster. Among…