NEWYORKTIMES(2002-3-5)
Memorial to Mark WTC Anniversary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW
YORK (AP) -- The passage of six months since the World Trade Center
attack will be observed with a bronze sculpture damaged on Sept. 11
and with twin columns of light beamed skyward from a spot near ground
zero. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. George Pataki said Tuesday that
``Tribute in Light,'' meant to evoke the destroyed towers, and ``The
Sphere,'' a sculpture that had stood in the trade center plaza, are
meant only as temporary memorials until a permanent design is selected.
``But they give us a place to go and reflect and to pray,'' Bloomberg
said. The Tribute in Light, to be installed in a vacant lot next to
the trade center complex, will consist of two searchlights sending 88
high-powered beams of light into the night sky. The lights will be visible
over the metropolitan area beginning on Monday. The light towers, the
brainchild of two arts organizations, will be displayed until April
13. The estimated $10,000 worth of electricity is being donated by Con
Edison. ``The visibility will vary from night to night, but the lights
will certainly appear as tall as the towers and most nights many times
taller,'' said Paul Marantz, president of the company installing the
lighting. The memorial will be illuminated until 11 p.m. It will be
shut off on nights when cloud cover could cause light to spill into
nearby apartments. Liz McLaughlin, whose husband worked in the towers,
said the light memorial ``sounds wonderful, but what are they going
to do after the month? I think a lot of families have been waiting for
some kind of memorial.'' ``For a lot of us, it's sacred ground and a
place to say goodbye,'' she said. ``I'm happy for any sort of respectful
tribute and remembrance.'' Jaqui Eaton, whose husband also worked in
the towers, said: ``I guess it's a nice gesture. Whatever they want
to do as a gesture, if it's tasteful,'' would be appropriate. She said
she was torn between ``wanting people to remember and wanting some time
to get some sense of normalcy back in your life.'' The other temporary
memorial, a steel-and-bronze sculpture called ``The Sphere,'' which
weighs 5,000 pounds and is 15 feet in diameter, will be dedicated in
nearby Battery Park on Monday at 8:46 a.m. -- the time that the first
of two hijacked jetliners slammed into the trade center. ``The Sphere,''
which stood in the fountain of the trade center plaza, was gashed and
partially crushed by falling debris. It was created in 1971 by artist
Fritz Koenig and was dedicated as a monument to world peace through
world trade. The mayor said the globe will probably serve as a centerpiece
for a permanent memorial. ^------ On the Net: http://www.creativetime.org/towers/background.html
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