Research Catalog

Title

After Swissair / Budge Wilson.

Author

Wilson, Budge

Publication

East Lawrencetown, Nova, Scotia, Canada : Pottersfield Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

126 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 plunged into the sea near the mouth of St. Margaret's Bay in Nova Scotia, killing all 229 on board. Thousands of people responded immediately to help. Local residents and ordinary people supported the investigation in any way they could and they also sought to comfort the families of the victims. Many experienced enormous suffering and world views were changed forever for the survivors – both the friends and relatives of the victims as well as support teams and the local communities. What carried so many of them through this tragedy was the astonishing generosity and kindness each group gave to the other. As Wilson writes, "We all needed the families as much as they needed us." She wrote this collection of poems "in gratitude and in celebration of the thousands of men and women who suffered – and sometimes triumphed – during the months and years that followed the crash."

Subject

• Swissair Flight 111 Crash (1998)
• 1998
• Swissair Flight 111 Crash, 1998 > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

September 1, 1998 -- The start -- Victims -- Traffic -- Stalled business -- Next days -- The divers -- Ordinary people -- Families' arrival -- Dr. John Butt -- Hotel extraordinaire -- Halifax -- Nomenclature -- Peggy's Cove -- Golf balls for Monte -- The bears -- A gift of music -- Claire -- Nancy's quilt -- Lost survivors -- Commander Rick Town -- Major John O'Donnell -- The morgue -- Counsellors (I) -- The grapple -- The barge -- The RCMP at East River -- Judge Lorne Clarke -- List -- Poisoned words -- Epiphany -- The citadel ceremony -- Debra's stones -- Counsellors (II) -- Connections -- September 2015.

ISBN

• 9781897426814 (paperback)
• 189742681X (paperback)

LCCN

^^2015463535

OCLC

• 929130751
• SCSB-12242213

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library