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rate Biiclh Dio ffas 'Part of what I wanted to do in the exhibition was to talk about someone most people had never heard of who lived an extraordinary SANDRA BARGHINI Flagler Museum's chief curator rt, travel mark gentleman soldier's life Architects: Replacing towers a huge task Local architects ponder what will become of the site of the two 1 10-story buildings that collapsed after being struck by hijacked airplanes. New show at Flagler Museum features art and artifacts of Owen Hill Kenan, cousin to Mary Lily Kenan Flagler. By JAN SJOSTROM Daily News Arts Editor yiw nunuumiKl I i I May 1, 1915, Owen Hill Kenan boarded the Lusitania in New I V'-v 'Z L. I By KATHRYN SINICROPE Daily News Staff Writer Rescue crews struggle daily to remove the steel, concrete and glass that made up the 10 million square feet of office space in the World Trade Cen I mmmmmmm I 1 i i ter's twin towers, but questions remain about what will become of the site once the rubble is finally cleared away. Larry Silverstein, the developer who purchased the lease on the World Trade Center this summer for $3.2 billion from the New YorkNew Jersey Port Authority, has said he would like to rebuild the towers.

Local architects watched with the rest of the country Sept. 11 as the twin towers col Lawrence York. The Southern gentleman was traveling to Europe to fetch his niece, 19-year-old Louise Wise, who was attending school in war-torn France. Kenan, friend Alfred Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt's valet were on deck May 7 when a German torpedo struck the luxury liner. Vanderbilt's valet urged Vanderbilt and Kenan to don life vests.

Vanderbilt refused, insisting that the ship would not sink. As the bow tipped toward the sea floor, Kenan and the valet jumped into water. Kenan was sucked into a whirlpool created by ship's plunge. As he gulped what he thought was his last breath, he was surprised to feel his lungs fill with oxygen. He was in an air pocket created by one of the ship's big public rooms.

The air pushed him to the surface. Kenan later was picked up by an Irish fishing boat. Vanderbilt was among the 1,198 passengers who died. Kenan's gold pocket watch, which stopped at 2:33 p.m., the moment he leaped into the chilly water, survived the disaster. You can see it along with photographs, personal belongings, paintings, sculpture, china, silver and other objects related to Kenan, in the exhibition The Remarkable Life of Colonel Owen Hill Kenan at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum.

Kenan was an art collector, a physician, a Please see KENAN, Page 3 I I I lapsed into rubble after each was hit by a hijacked airplane. Each came away with different ideas about what the towers were and what should replace them. Minora Yamasaki, the buildings' architect, has said the World Trade Center "may have been the greatest architectural challenge of the 20th century." While that might be debatable, one thing most of Yamasaki's peers here don't dispute: The structure was notable for its massiveness, if not its architecture. "What impressed me was the scale of it and the whole concept of it being built as a nucleus for trade and the financial markets," said Jerome Baumoehl of Jerome Baumoehl Architects and Planners in West Palm Beach. "It was very simple," said Patrick Segraves of Palm Beach's SKA Architect Planner.

"That was the style of the time." "What was significant was their size," said Eugene Lawrence of Lawrence Group Architects on Worth Avenue. "They were very, very functional built to house people." Unlike the Empire State Building and other skyscrapers in the city that were built before the towers came along in 1970, Yamasaki's buildings had very broad surfaces, Lawrence said. Those broad surfaces allowed for unprecedented square footage inside the towers 4.8 million gross square feet of floor area in each tower and 12 million square feet of leasable office space. About 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center complex, which consisted of the towers and five other buildings, including an eight-story U.S. Custom house and a hotel.

Please see TOWERS, Page 5 Photo courtesy of the Flagler Museum Owen Hill Kenan and a friend stroll down a Paris street in 1 935. Kenan, a Francophile, had homes in New York, Wilmington, and Palm Beach as well as a home in Paris. Animals 'rescued' from up North Chicago stylist to cut in PB 1 week a month rep From left: Marcy Cameron, Helen Wilkes, Bette Berry and Eve Van Engle hold some of the dogs Animal Support Kindness and Kinship, brought from New Jersey on a recent trip to New York to rescue animals thought to be affected by the 11 disaster. Daily News Photo by Rmh Cincotta i By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer With all of the negative repercussions from the World Trade Center disaster, there is some good news for 17 homeless animals from New Jersey, thanks to the generosity of a Palm Beach-based animal welfare group. Animal Support Kindness and Kinship donated $2,000 to fund a van and workers to drive to New York and bring back some displaced animals.

Marcy Cameron, vice president of ASKK, said the group heard the New York shelters were "overflowing" and ASKK wanted to do something to help. It funded the rescue and partnered with the animal welfare group PAWS-2-HELP and the Florida Humane Society to bring the animals back. ASKK's intentions were good. The information was not. New York City animal shelters were no more crowded than usual because of the disaster, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Center for Animal Care and Control in New York City.

The good news is the three-member crew from Palm Beach County rescued 17 animals 12 dogs and a mother cat and her four kittens from a shelter in Edison, N.J. Eve Van Engle, founder of PAWS-2-HELP in West Palm Beach, said she received an e- By ROBERT JANJIGIAN Daily News Fashion Editor Bad hair days brought Chicago stylist and colorist Maurice Bonamigo to Palm Beach. Born and raised in the Midwest, Bonamigo, 41, got his first taste of life in Palm Beach in April. A half-dozen of his loyal clients, all of whom are winter residents on the island, banded together to fly him in from Chicago for a few concentrated days of hair repair and maintenance. "It was a matter of love at first sight," said Bonamigo, who became enamored with the island's atmosphere on his first visit.

He proceeded to explore the possibility, at his clients' urging, to make the trek to Palm Beach a regularly scheduled one beginning this fall. "How could I resist coming here?" he said. He interviewed the owners of several local salons before deciding to align himself with Margrit Bessenroth. "He's very talented and already has a local following," said salon owner Bessenroth, who has been styling hair in Palm Beach for 35 years. Starting Monday, Nov.

26, Bonamigo will Please see STYLIST, Page 3 Bonamigo Top Chicago colorist and stylist will commute to Salon Margrit one week a month this season, beginning in November. mail from an animal rescue group in New York City asking for help. The e-mail led Van Engle to believe that shelters were overflowing. "We went up to see what we could do to help and what we could learn to do here if a similar event happened here," Van Engle said. "They stopped at nine shelters to get the whole picture of what was happening up there." Four of the seven dogs brought to PAWS-2-HELP were adopted Sunday.

The gray cat and her kittens, who are about 4 weeks old, will go to a foster home until the kittens are old enough to be spayed and neutered and put up for adoption. The remaining five dogs were taken to a Deerfield Beach shelter for adoption. The Palm Beach group was apparently not the only one to receive the e-mail. Deborah Sindell, ASPCA spokeswoman, said two women from a rescue group in Alabama received similar information from the Internet and drove to the shelter to help. They adopted two dogs, Sindell said.

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