If you are in the vicinity tomorrow evening be sure to stop by the historic buoy tender LILAC at the Hudson River Park’s Pier 25 at North Moore Street, Tribeca, Manhattan, where Carolina Salguero & Jessica DuLong will speak on the Mariners’ Response to 9/11 from  7:00-8:30pm. Carolina Salguero was a  photojournalist on 9/11 and is now Director of PortSide NewYork. Jessica DuLong, is a journalist and author of My River Chronicles  (see our review here.)   She is also Chief Engineer on the historic fireboat John J. Harvey. Though retired from service, the John J. Harvey was the first fire boat on scene on 9/11, pumping river water around the clock to the firefighters at Ground Zero.  Today, Huffington Post also published “The Untold Story of Ground Zero Evacuations by Boat” by Jessica DuLong.

The talks are part of a multi-media exhibit (photography, videos and oral history) and presentation about the extraordinary and little-known maritime role in 9/11, from evacuation to rubble removal, produced by PortSide NewYork, a waterfront-themed non-profit organization.