Midsummer Sound Company


Dedicated to the production and promotion of the spoken word and audio arts including but not limited to audiobooks, audio plays, storytelling and poetry.



The Longest Night


To Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster,

Midsummer Sound Company is proud to announce the audio version of


The Longest Night - A Personal History of Pan Am 103


         

                                                                                                                        photo courtesy of UPI

The Longest Night

by

Helen Engelhardt

Produced by Midsummer Sound Company


The Longest Night - A Personal History of Pan Am 103 is a deeply emotional, fully realized audio book that begins with the narrator's learning that her husband was killed in the terrorist bombing over Lockerbie on Dec 21, 1988, and ends after a journey of twelve very long months.

 More than twenty years ago, Pan Am 103 exploded over Scotland, instantly killing all 259 people on board and 11 individuals on the ground.  Helen Engelhardt's husband, Tony Hawkins, was on that flight, returning from a visit with family in England.

 Engelhardt is a writer, poet, storyteller, and independent audio artist; hearing her talk about the year that followed her husband's loss is a powerful listening experience.  However, The Longest Night is more than one woman's experience, because it weaves conversations recorded at that time with family and friends. Engelhardt recounts how she connected with these and other shattered families as they created an effective political and emotional support group "The Victims Of Pan Am Flight 103." Residents of Lockerbie describe the impact of that night on people they knew. There are visits to the Lockerbie area and Dryfesdale Cemetery. Framed against these sonic and rhetorical elements, at the heart of the memoir, is the story of the love and marriage of Engelhardt and Hawkins.

 The Longest Night is based upon Helen Engelhardt's memoir of the same name.  It was directed by award winning audio book producer Jeffrey Hedquist.  Recording and Sound Design by David Shinn.








Helen, Alan, and Tony



Helen Engelhardt, a gifted writer and story teller has brought us, with The Longest Night,
an eye and heart witness account of a harrowing moment in our collective history.

This is the story of her beloved husband who through accidents and quirks of fate decided
to board Pan Am Flight 103. Neither he nor anyone else who made the same decision survived
the terrorist bomb that was to send them hurtling through the sky to unsuspecting earth in Scotland.

With the craft of a great story teller, Engelhardt unfolds the stories of those whose lives ended
and those whose lives as they had known them also came to a burning halt.

In these times, the oral tradition begins to take back its rightful place as a vehicle for recording
history, instilling values, teaching lessons, focusing attention, providing diversion, and creating
community. Engelhardt is a leading star in this revival.

Barbara Lazear Ascher

Author of Landscape Without Gravity, A Memoir of Grief
Playing After Dark
The Habit of Loving


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THE LONGEST NIGHT

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"The Longest Night is situated in an entirely original place where memoir meets documentary,

and the result is powerful...full of insights on love and grief...the listening experience is effortless.

I think that The Longest Night makes a unique contribution to the literature of memoir in audio."


Charles Potter

Grammy Award-winning audiobook director/producer