9/11 Memorial & Museum
Twin reflecting pools and underground museum marking the site of the September 11 attacks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York follows one Callery pear tree pulled from the rubble of Ground Zero in October 2001, reduced to a charred, split stump barely eight feet tall. It traces where city parks workers took it and the nine years they spent quietly working to bring it back before it returned to the plaza in December 2010. Listen while standing beside the South Pool, where the tree grows today.
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