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COVER STORY
Memorials
Kurt Andersen and poet Donald Hall look at how artists
create memorials, how we connect to them, and how long we want them to
last.
  Memory
and Music
In classical music, the music can give
us the grandeur and gravity we crave; and the words can bring it down
to earth, closer to the specifics of what we're trying to recall. Sara
Fishko looks at memory, music and the art of capturing a profound moment
in time.
Thanks to the Ravinia Festival for the recording of Ned Rorem's Aftermath.
 Go
to Ned Rorem's site
Go
to the Legacy project
Go
to Frederica von Stade's site
See
photo of Ned Rorem
 Totem
Pole
In the Northwest, native people carve totem poles to
remember great figures in Native culture, or commemorate a clan victory.
But a totem pole can also be created to remember darker things. A look
at a particular totem pole and the people trying to preserve what's left
of it. Produced by Harriet Baskas.
Go
to a site on Totem poles
Go
to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
See
photos of totem poles
Finnegan's
Wake
The typical Irish wake is a celebration of the way
a person joked and ate and drank and lived. A pair of Irish-American singers,
Austin Hughes and his father, Austin Sr., sing Finnegan's Wake -- a traditional
tune that came long before the book by the same name by James Joyce. Produced
by Jocelyn Gonzales.
Go
to a site of Irish Folk Songs
Go
to a site about Irish Wakes
SPECIAL GUEST
Donald Hall
has published fifteen books of poetry, most recently
The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which
was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane
Kenyon's death from leukemia. Donald Hall has won the National book Critics
Circle Award, two Guggenheim fellowships, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for
poetry. From 1984 to 1989 he served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.
Go
to an article on Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon
Go
to a Donald Hall bio
See
photo of Donald Hall
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Commentary
The Way We Memorialize Now
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Design
for the Real World
Karal Ann Marling, an American Studies professor,
looks at the phenomenon of memorial souvenirs. Produced by Leital Molad.
Go
to Karal Ann Marling at the University of Minnesota
Go
to a Guardian article about this issue
See
some WTC memorial souvenirs for sale
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