Category Archives: Progress

Here are some photographs of whats waiting for you at the DeKalb 9/11 Memorial site!  We are excited to be adding the final finishing touches as we prepare for the Remembrance Ceremony tomorrow. We hope all of you can come … Continue reading →

Here’s a New Video from Jason Chonody documenting the Memorial Sculpture’s final stages.    

Thanks to everybody who has donated materials, services, and time to the 9/11 memorial, the memorial site is nearly complete!    Here are some photos of the granite being cut: Volunteers preparing the concrete:   Last but not least, two … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jason Chodony for all his hard work shooting video of the project’s progression.  I’m sure many of you are familiar with his work, and we’re happy to say that his latest may just be the best yet. Take … Continue reading →

As the 10th anniversary of September 11th approaches, the DeKalb 9/11 Memorial Project is now well under way.  Thanks to some successful fundraisers and generous donations, we have been able to prepare the memorial site for remaining concrete. As you … Continue reading →

Ground has been broken at the DeKalb Public Safety Headquarters, and the first of the concrete has been poured!  We’d like to thank all the volunteers who came out to help, in spite of the record-breaking heat.  We couldn’t be … Continue reading →

With all the posts concerning the phoenix wing sculpture, we felt that the focus of the memorial site needed some well deserved attention. The piece of steel from the World Trade Center that Firefighter Harms received from New York is … Continue reading →

We thought it might be time to let everyone even further behind the scenes, and show you some photos of Curtis James Miller’s building process.  The feathers are heated in a forge, then bent, textured with a grinder, hammered, and … Continue reading →

The first phase of the phoenix wing sculpture is complete, and now it’s on to the rest!   Getting all these feathers to be sized correctly and bent at the correct angle means custom fitting each piece with the one preceding … Continue reading →

The armature for the phoenix is complete, and I am eager to begin phase two of the build – the feathers!