Michael Ragsdale

I used to do event video in New York for Columbia University, the NewYork Presbyterian Hospitals of Columbia & Cornell, the Women’s Economic Roundtable of New York, the Manhattan Institute, the Media Law Resource Center and C-SPAN from 1997-2009 and 2010-2013. I am now retired and with my wife live in Seattle, Washington. I am also associated with the September 11 Memorial Museum.

Beginning September 11, 2001, and for six years I collected event materials at 200 very special occasions in New York City which had something to do with 9/11 and subsequent wars. These were events I either helped videotape or went to on my own.

The collection includes over 1000 images of the event materials I alone gathered at those occasions - fliers, brochures, cards, press releases, copies of speeches and programs. Placed in the chronological order I acquired them, with the names of the participants, dates, locations and stories or anecdotes about each, I will tell a unique story. It also includes autographs: I got a lot of the participants to sign the event materials.

My presentation normally includes over 300 images.

It is a paper history of how I experienced the aftermath of 9/11.

It is a narrative memoir.

It is untold New York 9/11 aftermath history.

I intend to begin presentations in February on Zoom.

In around 45 minutes I will go through as many of the events and stories as possible, then open it for questions - for one hour total. (If you so desire you are invited to sign up for a follow-up talk.)

I intend to do this through September 2021 in commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. Therefore I will only accept donations.

I have given talks about the archive in Queens, Manhattan and Seattle from 2010 - 2019, and on Zoom in 2020. And already am giving a talk this year on January 28th.