2013 Boston Marathon Bombings

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Title

2013 Boston Marathon Bombings

Description

The idea for this project stemmed from that fact that I was very interested in the oral histories of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. I had a very personal connection to the bombings as I have been a life-long resident of Boston, and I came up with the idea to interview people that I knew from Boston about their experiences of that time and combine these interviews into some type of artifact to both commemorate the tragedy but also serve as an outlet for people to have their stories told and heard. In order to do this, I interviewed seven people, and put quotations taken from these interviews onto a physical representation of the 2013 finish line that I created on a large piece of paper. I imagine the finish line to be very interactive, where a viewer would start with it being scrolled up, and then gradually unravel it while reading each quotation as they appeared. I organized the quotations to create a timeline of sorts, as the left side starts with what people were physically doing at the time that they found out about the bombs, and then progressed through the common themes of fear, initial reactions, anger, and then how they were dealing with it now two years later.

Creator

Deirbhile Martin

Files

http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/courses/2015/USW24/files/original/475b07dfd5061f74e172384ddf13eafd.png

Citation

Deirbhile Martin, “2013 Boston Marathon Bombings,” USW24, accessed March 28, 2024, https://usworld24.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/27.