Remembering The Story Of 'The Plane People' On 9/11, 20 Years Later
Beulah Cooper and Hannah O'Rourke share how their lives intersected on Sept. 11, 2001, when O'Rourke was among 7,000 airline passengers stranded in Gander, Newfoundland, where Cooper still lives.
Sep 10, 2021
3 minutes
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“Come From Away,” a Tony award-winning Broadway musical, is based on a real-life 9/11 story.
The feel-good performance strikes notes of virtue and goodness on a day that those qualities seemed missing from the world. It also captures the awfulness of being in the dark — the feeling of not knowing — that so many people shared on Sept. 11, 2001.
“Come From Away” takes place in the tiny fishing town of — more than a thousand miles from lower Manhattan. Gander is home to Celtic heritage, plaid shirts
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