Remembering Sid Birns, photojournalist
Most Septembers since the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Sid Birns would share photos and stories with the Wilson County News and its readers about the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. We missed him this year. WCN is sad to report that Sid passed in May. His contributions will be missed. Born Aug. 7, 1925, in Manhattan, N.Y., Birns grew up during the Depression playing stick and ball sports with the boys from his Brooklyn neighborhood. Youth and athletics kept the 1929 Depression at bay and garnered Birns a tryout with the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Though he didn’t make the team, his...
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