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Between 2002 and 2004, the Living Memorials Project was initiated by the US Forest Service to support and document the creation of living memorials
Our photo essay examines living memorials to 9/11 as ‘therapeutic landscapes’ (Gesler 1993), a concept that focuses our attention on human-environment interactions and the ways those interactions can foster the health of communities and individuals
A manager in the New York City Parks Department, who helped transplant damaged, dust-covered trees from an area adjacent to Ground Zero to a nearby memorial site, said, ‘we were driven by the need to do something ... feelings of helplessness ... we felt we were ... addressing that helplessness in a way by making sure that these trees survived’
Summary
Between 2002 and 2004, the Living Memorials Project was initiated by the US Forest Service to support and document the creation of living memorials. Through images and interviews we examine the therapeutic power of planting and caring for flora at memorials, an activity that stewards described as providing an outlet to process trauma and grief, a powerful setting of social support, and a place to engage with the rhythms and spiritual power of nature.
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