Reminiscences of Daniel I. Smith : oral history, 2001-2004.

Biographical Note

Architect.

Scope and Contents

Background: born Clarkston, WA; raised in Stamford and Fairfield, CT; education: B.A. Haverford College, M.A. Parson's School of Design; career: architect, interest in teaching; 9/11: at home in West Village, radio announcement of plane crash at the World Trade Center, conversations with people on the street, experiences of students at Stuyvesant High School, description of debris and smoke from North Tower collapse, lines of blood donors outside of St. Vincent Hospital; relief effort at Chelsea Piers Relief Center, management of vital supplies, information center for missing people; in charge of food distribution at the World Trade Center, generosity of individuals and businesses; post-9/11: interest in death, heightened sensitivity to persons of Middle Eastern descent, travels through Asia, foreign perspectives on 9/11.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Meyer, Susan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Smith, Daniel I.--Interviews.
• Starecheski, Amy, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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