Fear and Fellowship: Cambridge’s Response to September 11

October 2, 2026
Black-and-white photo of students and attendees gathered on the steps of a brick building during a peace rally at Harvard.

By Beth Folsom, 2026 On the morning of September 12, 2001, Cantabrigians from all walks of life were struggling to come to terms with what had happened less than 24 hours earlier, when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon just outside of Washington, DC, and a field…

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