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The Life From The Roots blog topics have changed several times since I began this blog in 2009. I initially wrote only about the family history I had been working on for 20 years. Years later, I was into visiting gardens, historical homes, churches, libraries that had genealogical collections, historical societies, war memorials, and travel/tourism places. I also enjoy posting autographs and photos of famous people I've met or have seen.

Along with my New England roots, other areas include New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Please check out the labels on the right side for topics (please note, they need work). Below the labels and pageviews is a listing of my top nine posts, according to Google. Four of them pertain to Lowell, MA. These posts change often because they are based on what people are reading.

Saturday, September 11, 2021

Massachusetts Remembers 9/ll With Memorial and Names -- 20 Years Later


All photos by Barbara Poole.







When I came across the Boston memorial to the 206 Massachusetts victims of September 11, 2001, one day while strolling in the Public Gardens, I knew I had to share my photos and more importantly, the names of all those from Massachusetts who died. We will never forget.

Stephen G. Adams, Gertrude “Trudi” Alagero, Anna S.W. Allison, Barbara Arestegui, Myra Aronson, Yaphet Aryee, Garnet “Ace” Bailey, Christine Johanna Barbuto, Mark Lawrence Bavis, Graham Berkeley, David W. Bernard, Mark Bingham, Jeffrey D. Bittner, Susan Leigh Blair, Kelly Booms, Carol Bouchard, John B. Cahill, Michael R. Canty, Christoffer M. Carstanjen, Neilie Anne Hefferman Casey, William Caspar, Swarna Chalasani, Stephen Cherry, Geoffrey William Cloud, Jeffrey D. Collman, Kevin Patrick Connors, Jeffrey William Coombs, John “Jay” Corcoran, Fredrick John Cox, Tara Kathleen Creamer, Thelma Cuccinello, Patrick J. Currivan, Dorothy de Araujo, Gerald F. DeConto, Manuel Del Valle, Gerard P. Dewan, Simon Dhanani, David DiMeglio, Donald A. DiTullio, Alberto Dominguez, Jamie Lynn Fallon, Alexander M. Filipov, John R. Fisher, Richard Fitzsimons, Carol Flyzik, Alan Friedlander, Paul J. Friedman, Karleton Douglas Beye Fyfe, Thomas Edward Galvin, Douglas Gardner, Peter A. Gay, Linda Mae George, Edmund Glazer, Lynn Catherine Goodchild, Peter M. Goodrich, Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, Douglas A. Gowell, Andrew Curry Green, Donald Freeman Greene, Francis Grogan, Philip Guza, Paige Farley Hackel, Maile Hale, Carl Hammond, Christine Lee Hanson, Peter Burton Hanson, Sue Kim Hanson, Gerald Hardacre, Melissa Harrington-Hughes, Eric Hartono, John C. Hartz, Peter P. Hashem, James E. Hayden, Robert J. Hayes, Roberta Bernstein Heber, Edward R. Hennessy, Norberto Hernandez, Todd R. Hill, Cora Hidalgo Holland, Herbert Wilson Homer, John Nicholas Humber, William Christopher Hunt, Waleed Joseph Iskandar, Erik Hans Isbrandtsen, Aaron J. Jacobs, Ariel L. Jacobs, Jason K. Jacobs, Robert A. Jalbert, Gricelda E. Garo James, Amy Nicole Jarret, John Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Charles E. Jones, Jennifer Lynn Kane, Robin L. Kaplan, Robert A. Kaulfers, Richard Keane, Barbara A. Keating, Ralph F. Kershaw, Brian Kevin Kinney, David P. Kovalcin, Kathryn L. LaBorie, Judy C. Larocque, Natalie ”Janis” Lasden, Robert G. LeBlanc, Dong Lee, Joseph A. Lenihan, Jeffrey LeVeen, Daniel Lewin, Sara Low, Sean P. Lynch, Marianne MacFarlane, Susan McAleney Mackay, L. ”Neil” Mariani, Kenneth J. Marino, Karen Martin,Joseph Mathai, Margaret Mattic, Kevin M. McCarthy, Juliana Valentine McCourt, Ruth Clifford McCourt, Michael Gregory McGinty, Thomas F. McGuinness, Gavin McMahon, Christopher Daniel Mello, Stuart Todd Meltzer, Raymond Joseph Metz, Martin P. Michelstein, Craig J. Miller, Antonio Montoya, Carlos Montoya, Laura Lee Defazio Morabito, Christopher M. Morrison, Brian Joseph Murphy, Mildred Rose Naiman, Shawn M. Nassaney, Laurie Olsen Neira, Renee Tetreault Newell, Kathleen Anne Nicosia, Jacqueline Norton, Robert Norton, John Ogonowski, Leah E. Oliver,Seamus O’Neal, Betty Ann Ong, Jane M. Orth, Marie Pappalardo, Robert Pattison, Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli, Todd D. Pelino, Berinthia Berenson Perkins, Jean Peterson, Dennis J. Pierce, Everett ”Marty” Proctor, Carrie Beth Progen, Sonia Mercedes Morales Puopolo, Patrick J. Quigley, Jonathan C. Randall, David E. Retik, Vanesha Richards, Fredrick J. Rimmele, Isaias Rivera, Waleska Martinez Rivera, Stephen L. Roach, Raymond J. Rocha, Laura Rockefeller, Jean D. RogĂ©r, Philip M. Rosenzweig, Richard Barry Ross, Michael Craig Rothberg, James M. Roux, Jessica Leigh Sachs, Rahma Salie, Jesus ”JR” Sanchez, Matthew Carmen Sellitto, Kathleen Shearer, Robert M. Shearer, Antoinette Sherman, Jane Louise Simpkin, Heather Smith, Dianne Bullis Snyder, Timmothy C. Stout, Edward W. Straub, Brian David Sweeney, Madeline Amy Sweeney, Kevin T. Szocik, Deborah Tavolarella, Leonard Taylor, Michael Theodoridis, Eric Thorpe, Alicia Titus, Amy E. Toyen, Daniel Trant, Jim Trentini, Mary Trentini, Tyler Ugolyn, Michael Augustine Uliano, Kenneth E. Waldie, Meta Fuller Waller, Stephen Ward, William Michael Weems, John J. Wenckus, Peter M. West, Maudlyn A. White, Candace Lee Williams, Christopher R. Zarba.

The list of names came from 9/11 Victims With Massachusetts Ties (CBS Boston, September 11, 2011). Click on names to read their profiles.  The Massachusetts 9/11 Fund has a few activities for today, September 11, 2017.

9-11-2001 We Will Never Forget Memorial in Lowell, Massachusetts


World Trade Center
On this date:
Sept. 11, 2001

The United States was attacked by terrorists.
The country, united in Patriotism,
 Responded, Recovered and Rebuilt.

This Memorial is dedicated to the memory of
the fallen Firefighters, Police Officers,
Emergency Medical Technicians and Civilians
who lost their lives on this tragic day.

May we never forget those who suffered,
those that continue to suffer and
those that made the supreme
sacrifice on this day.

Let us always recognize the
dedication and sacrifices of the
Post 9-11-2001 Veterans
for their service during the
War Against Terrorism.


On Sept. 11, 2001, 977 people were lost including:
343 FDNY Firefighters
37 Port Authority Police Officers
23 NYPD Police Officers
8 Private Ambulance Company Emergency Medical Technicians
A Patrolman from New York Fire Patrol
A Citizen of the City of Lowell: (See below.)

Chronology of this fateful day:
08:46 American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center With 92 people on board

09:03 United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center with 65 people on board.

09:38 American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the U.S. Pentagon,
Washington, D.C. with 64 people on board and also killing 125 people inside the Pentagon.

10:05 the South Tower of the World Trade Center Collapses.

10:10 United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into a field in Somerset, Pennsylvania with 44 people on board.

10:28 the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

The Lowell City Hall view from the memorial.

Cobblestones Restaurant is behind, on the right side and the Masconic Temple behind the memorial.

Police Department to the right.

Liberty Tree Park