Telling stories and keeping history alive helps some New York City firefighters who were working on 9/11, a day when 343 of their colleagues were killed. Some tour the country with a foundation called Tunnel to Towers, which visited Sarasota earlier this year. WUSF’s Kerry Sheridan spoke with some of them about mental health and recovery, 25 years later. And a note to our listeners: This story mentions suicide.
A Tallahassee native who has lived in New York City for decades is reflecting on the 25 years since the 9/11 attacks. Christina Stanton and her husband were in their apartment six blocks from the World Trade Center when the planes hit. Her book, Out of the Shadow of 9/11, was published in 2019.Stanton has been a licensed tour guide in the city for over 30 years. Now, she spends much of her time taking tour groups to the city’s 9/11 memorial and working to keep the memory alive, as she told Gina Jordan.
The 9/11 terror attacks had drastic impacts across America’s culture and institutions. One institution that was drastically shifted was the press. University of Georgia journalism professor Moni Basu saw it firsthand. A Florida State University alum, she shifted from being a local reporter to a war correspondent after 9/11 for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN. She spoke with WFSU’s Tristan Wood, who she taught at the University of Florida about how September 11 changed journalism, and what it looked like for a journalist who lived through it.
Wewahitchka, Florida is home to Tupelo Honey, a unique form of the sweet that doesn’t crystallize and stays liquid for years. The honey comes from the Tupelo tree, a variety that only grows in the Southeastern United States. In Florida, that place is located on the banks of the Apalachicola River, where generations of beekeepers have carefully cultivated and harvested the liquid gold. But, as the Rural News Services’ Randy Vuxta reports, due to several factors, the goldmine that is Tupelo Honey may soon be tapped out.