The memorial was heavily damaged in Hurricane Sandy.
When Superstorm Sandy blew into town, it caused damage all over. One piece of the town hit hard was the 9/11 Memorial in Chatham Borough's Memorial Park. "A branch fell on the lights and punched the lights out," Dan Smith of the Chatham Borough 9/11 Memorial Advisory Committee said. "Two of the cables supporting the doves broke, so we have to restring those." The steel cables which held up the seven doves—one for each of the seven years that passed between the terrorist attacks and the year the memorial was built—were snapped back and forth over and over during the hurricane until they broke and the doves fell. The committee must restring those doves with new cable, and install new hardware to keep the cables in place. There was also wind …
A film crew delivering a 9-11 Memorial Cross to St. Peter's Church in New York City made a stop in Chatham Wednesday.
When sculptor and Morris County native Jon Krawczyk came home this week, he did not come alone. Kevin Kato and Jason Smith, respectively a writer and film director, joined Krawczyk on his cross-country road trip from his Malibu, Calif., studio to New York City. They joined him because of a very special piece of art that Krawczyk had in tow. Krawczyk, who grew up in Boonton, was commissioned to create a 9-11 Memorial Cross for St. Peter's Church in New York City, which faces the site of the World Trade Center and was damaged in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Two steel beams forming a cross were found amid the wreckage of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks. Named the World Trade Center Cross or the Ground Zero …
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Len Resto
9:31 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
I plan to make a donation and urge fellow residents to do the same. I lost over a dozen close friends on 9/11; so, the Memorial has a very special meaning to me. more ›