Twenty-five years after the attack on the World Trade Center, Silurians gathered on October 14 for a talk that was, perhaps, one of the club’s most all-inclusive. The speakers had been actively involved in reporting on 9/11 and, as New Yorkers, the audience had been involved and impacted. As Fran Carpentier, president of the Silurians Press Club, said: “The fallout of 9/11 is still very much with us.”

Three prize-winning journalists were on the panel: Mike Kelly, reporter and columnist for The Record in Bergen County and author of After Ground Zero: Everyday Americans and the Unhealed Scars of 9/11; Allan Dodds Frank, business investigative journalist who reported live for CNN as the towers fell; and Pulitzer Prize winner Janny Scott of The New York Times, who launched the “Portraits of Grief” series. Moderator Martin Gottlieb, a veteran reporter and editor, lived two blocks from the site.