Joe's Dribble
The Day the Sky Fell
September 11, 2001:

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It was just one of those days... had a hard time getting up, the thought of going threw another dull boring day of the same work routine just made me pull the covers over my head for an extra 20 minutes and miss the last train to Hoboken. I took a NJ Coast local up to Newark, switched to the PATH, got a hot cup of tea on the concorse level and had just reached the ground floor of the WTC by the courtyard when the building shook violently. It was time to pull the trusty Kodak DC265 out of my backpack and sent it into it's final mission.

It wasn't a bang, but more like the shake and rattle an old roller coaster makes, while the chain drive is pulling you up to the top of the first hill. At first most of the people around me thought it might have been an earthquake and that everything was over, but when I got to the Courtyard and found pieces of debris (some smoking) still falling I knew something was wrong so I got myself under and overhang, pulled up the camera and started shooting. People had left their coffee and breakfast on tables and ran, police were chasing everyone out of the courtyard and just after I shot a picture of the globe in the center of the fountain, something fell on and split it... time for me to leave. The only safe was back through the World Trade Center and out onto the Church St. where I finally saw the flames coming out of the tower. A couple of people were talking about the plane that had just hit.
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At the Bookstore...  

(continued from page 2) diversity. I thought it strange to see no folk music on the agenda, since that genre's traditional venue is the coffeehouse. We'll see what's up ahead for next month, I suppose. 

The Brick location of Barnes and Noble is also alive with children's music. Kin Eagle and Jim Babjak return with their original childrens songs 6:30 p.m. Oct. 4.  Regular performer of the cafe is Yosi, who offers up singalongs for children, this month at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 29. 

This is just a sampling of many other programs the store, located at 44 Brick Plaza at Routes 549 and 70 in Bricktown, provides. Call them at (732) 255-6600 for more information. --by Catherine E. Galioto, Staff Writer