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The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
On September 11, 2001, in the hours after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, several small Newfoundland towns took in nearly 6,700 people on 38 planes forced to land at Gander International Airport. The needs were not small ? food, lodging, clothing, diapers, prescriptions, caffeine, and hugs ? and the town turned out, turned up, fed, clothed, housed, embraced them all with a generosity that stunned, dismayed, delighted, and inspired. A gem of a story in the center of a storm.
The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goo...
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