Nation ‘gets together’ to rekindle spirit of giving

SHE was just a girl when she heard it on TV — the notion of “people getting together” to do something relevant and helpful after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001.

And Alee Pagnotti listened. Now, 10 years later, the law student is still living that notion — and trying to recapture the feeling of giving that followed those dark days.

At dawn yesterday, she joined hundreds in a northern Nashville neighbourhood to build seven new homes for families — a dividend in brick and mortar of the towers that fell hundreds of miles away and a decade in the past.