Community Stories

On this page, we're creating an archive to document the life of All Souls through first-person accounts, images and reports. To make contributions to any of these sections, please send them to us at archives@allsoulsnyc.org. For additional information about contributing, please see Preserving the Present as a Legacy for the Future.

The documents are in the following categories: Bicentennial Stories, All Souls in the Pandemic, Advocating for Racial Justice and 9/11 Memories.

Sep 2, 2022

That Horrible Day

by Lois Coleman. On September 11th, 2001, I was a librarian at Barnard College, and lived on the other side of the Columbia campus on...

Sep 2, 2022

Remembering 9/11, 21 years later...

by Bill Bechman. On August 1, 2001, I flew back to my childhood home from New York City to spend a weekend visiting my parents in Indiana....

Sep 2, 2022

My Memories of 9/11/01

by Harry Miller. I might not have looked at it this way, if I had not been asked for a recollection, but in many ways 9/11 - my 9/11 -...

Aug 27, 2022

Fourth Avenue & 12th Street

by Myat Thi Ha. A typical autumn morning with coffee at the dining table next to the window under a crisp indigo sky. The most peaceful...

Aug 27, 2022

9/11/2001 Remembrances

by Dan O'Neill. I was in a sabbatical from my teaching job. On the Tuesday morning of September 11th I was planning to go into Manhattan...

Aug 27, 2022

9/11

by Laura Pederson. People don’t look like people anymore after they’ve fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground. ―Rebecca...

Aug 27, 2022

How 9/11 Motivated me to Change Careers

by Anne Bradley. On September 11, 2001, I wasn’t working that day. I was sitting at my home computer responding to some emails when my...

Aug 27, 2022

9/11 Story

by Rev. Dick Leonard, from his book Wet Cement, published in 2017. I have two possible routes to go from my apartment to the church, a...

Jan 22, 2022

A Year-End Farewell - by Timothy Kelley

Here’s to those lost in ’21— our woes continue; theirs are done. At year’s end we salute them, gone (while we contend with Omicron). Our...

Jul 31, 2021

The 60s: A Tale of Two Churches

By Rev. Dick Leonard. All Souls, like most Unitarian Universalist churches and fellowships in the 1960s, ran noteworthy social service...

Feb 26, 2021

Circles of Care News

Gary Newton writes: During one of the weekly Zoom gatherings of Bill’s Soul Circle, Pamela Healey asked about the curious looking animal...

Nov 26, 2020

Remembering Steve Kaminski

by Mitzi Moulds. Steve passed away due to Covid-19 in March, 2020. German born, he was an air cargo executive and avid historian who...

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