Empire State Quilters

19" x 16"
In November 2001 I attended the Houston International Quilt show and saw the 9/11 quilts which had been made. My own quilt had to wait 10 years until I could complete it. In the summer of 1999, after visiting my daughter who was awaiting the birth of her first child, I took this picture on the Hoboken Ferry back to Manhattan. On September 11, 2006, that granddaughter came home from school and told her mother to "sit down. I have something important to tell you." She told her mother about 9/11 and what happened. When my daughter relayed this to me, I realized that just as I never quite grasped what December 7, 1941 meant to my parents' generation, future generations wouldn't quite grasp what 9/11 meant to those of us who lived through it. I now see the new Freedom Tower from my bedroom window but the Twin Towers will always be a NYC Landmark to many of us — even if they only exists in our memories.