Lincoln Heritage Museum hosting 9/11 remembrance Thursday

[September 06, 2011]  Thursday evening the Lincoln Heritage Museum at Lincoln College will host a 10-year anniversary remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The remembrance program is free and open to all ages.

The program will begin at 7 p.m. and will feature remarks from Vicki Selvaggio of Springfield, who donated a United Airlines flight attendant's jacket to the museum in 2002. Selvaggio was wearing the jacket while on layover in New York City on the morning of the attacks.

The program will also include the music of Steve Scaife, a member of the St. Andrew's Pipe Band, which will perform several solemn selections. Michelle Fletcher of Lincoln will read a moving poem that she wrote in honor of the victims of the attacks.

The Lincoln Heritage Museum is in possession of several historical pieces with relevance to Sept. 11, most notably a piece of Tower One of the World Trade Center. The artifact was donated to the museum by the city of New York in 2002 and has attracted numerous visitors since its arrival.

Following the acquisition of the Tower One piece, the John Chan family of Peoria donated to the museum several items related to their son, Chip, who died in Tower One.

New York Gov. George Pataki also donated the address that he gave to the New York state legislature following the attacks, which remains the only copy of the address in any public or private hands.

As a show of solidarity, the Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, England, sent a letter of sympathy to Lincoln, Ill.

Those items on exhibit can be viewed following the program.

For more information, contact the Lincoln Heritage Museum at 217-732-3155.

[Text from file received from Lincoln College]