# Helen Engelhardt
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'''Helen Engelhardt''' is an activist,[Moriarty, Rick, and Mark Weiner. "Wounded families suffer new pangs of injustice; want probe of BP role in Lockerbie bomber release." ''The Post-Standard'', 20 July 2010. Web. 23 July 2010. [http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/wounded_families_suffer_new_pa.html]] author, poet, storyteller and independent audio artist;["The Longest Night." ''Midsummer Sound Company''. Midsummer Sound Company, n.d. Web. 23 July 2010. [http://www.midsummersoundcompany.net/The_Longest_Night.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723210238/http://www.midsummersoundcompany.net/The_Longest_Night.html |date=23 July 2011 }}.]
==Activities==
She has been active in peace, justice and environmental causes for over thirty years. She is a supporter of gay marriage and donated $500 in 2008 to help defeat [Proposition 8](/source/California_Proposition_8_(2008)) in California, a gay marriage ban.["Helen R. Engelhardt, N/A – Proposition 8 Campaign Contributions – Los Angeles Times." Databases, Lists, Maps, Rankings – Data Desk – Los Angeles Times. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 July 2010. [http://projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation/36156/].] She is involved with [A Better Choice For New York](/source/A_Better_Choice_For_New_York) and was a signatory of a 2010 open letter to Governor [David Paterson](/source/David_Paterson) and members of the [New York State Legislature](/source/New_York_State_Legislature) in which she supports a 1–3% tax increase for the wealthy in [New York state](/source/New_York_(state)) to help avoid cuts in state services.["Sharing in the Solution – An Open Letter from Upper-Income New Yorkers to the Governor and the New York State Legislature." A Better Choice For New York. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 July 2010. [http://www.abetterchoiceforny.org/NYFF_LETTERfinal.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724214554/http://www.abetterchoiceforny.org/NYFF_LETTERfinal.pdf |date=24 July 2011 }}.]
Engelhardt is the widow of Tony Hawkins, one of the 259 victims aboard [Pan Am Flight 103](/source/Pan_Am_Flight_103) which exploded on Wednesday, 21 December 1988 over [Lockerbie](/source/Lockerbie), Scotland when a bomb was detonated. She attracted public notice shortly after the bombing and again after the 2001 verdict announcements in the trial of [Lameen Khalifa Fhima](/source/Lameen_Khalifa_Fhima) (who was acquitted) and [Abdelbaset al-Megrahi](/source/Abdelbaset_al-Megrahi) (who was found guilty).["Full coverage of Fhima´s homecoming Lockerbie Pan Am 103." ''Plane Truth''. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 July 2010. [http://plane-truth.com/Aoude/geocities/verdict.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128060640/http://plane-truth.com/Aoude/geocities/verdict.html |date=28 November 2010 }}.] She spoke out against [Libya](/source/Libya)n leader [Muammar al-Gaddafi](/source/Muammar_al-Gaddafi) during his visit to New York City on 23 September 2009 to give his speech to the [United Nations General Assembly](/source/United_Nations_General_Assembly).[Hawkins, Helen Engelhardt. "Widow of Pan Am Flight 103, Helen Engelhardt Hawkins, is outraged as Moammar Khadafy makes UN speech – NYPOST.com." ''New York Post''. N.p., 29 September 2009. Web. 23 July 2010. [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/pan_am_widow_rages_at_khadafy_kMLk]{{Dead link|date=December 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}] She spoke against [BP](/source/BP) during a 19 July 2010 news conference at [Syracuse University](/source/Syracuse_University) in New York where families and lawmakers including Senator [Charles E. Schumer](/source/Charles_E._Schumer) urged a federal probe of any BP role in the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.[
As an educator and writer, she is involved in building better relationships between peoples of different backgrounds in [Brooklyn, New York](/source/Brooklyn), where she currently resides .]["Helen Engelhardt | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers." ''Poets & Writers''. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 July 2010. [http://www.pw.org/content/helen_engelhardt_2].] sheShe sings alto with the [Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus](/source/Brooklyn_Jewish_Community_Chorus) and is a [Brooklyn Dialogue Circle](/source/Brooklyn_Dialogue_Circle) participant serving on the board of directors.["The Dialogue Project Board of Directors." ''The Dialogue Project dot Org''. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 July 2010. [http://www.thedialogueproject.org/BoardandStaff.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207183902/http://thedialogueproject.org/BoardandStaff.html |date=7 February 2011 }}] She has been performing original and traditional stories before audiences since 1997 and took first prize in the storytelling competition at the [Hemingway Days Festival](/source/Hemingway_Days_Festival), [Key West, Florida](/source/Key_West%2C_Florida) in 1998.[{{Cite web |url=http://www.speakeasystories.com/teller-bios.html |title="Speakeasy Stories." Speakeasy Stories. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 July 2010 |access-date=24 July 2010 |archive-date=14 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214195022/http://www.speakeasystories.com/teller-bios.html |url-status=dead }}]
==Published works==
* ''Mothers And Sons'' – a double portrait of the German sculptor [Käthe Kollwitz](/source/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz) (1867–1945), who created "The Grieving Parents," a memorial to her son who died in World War I, and the contemporary German-American sculptor [Suse Lowenstein](/source/Suse_Lowenstein), who created a work to honor her son, a victim in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. Written by [Marjorie Van Halteren](/source/Marjorie_Van_Halteren) & Helen Engelhardt – Produced in 2008 by [Entre Deux Amies](/source/Entre_Deux_Amies)[Lowenstein, Suse. "Mothers and Sons." Midsummer Sound Company. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 July 2010. [http://midsummersoundcompany.net/Mothers_and_Sons.html]{{Dead link|date=December 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.]
*"Chicken soup for the soul": stories for a better world – The Last Day of My Life – Short Story.[Canfield, Jack, Candice Carter, Mark Victor Hansen, Susanna Palomares, Linda Williams, and Bradley Winch. ''Chicken Soup Stories for a Better World (Chicken Soup for the Soul).'' Deerfield Beach, FL: HCI, 2005. Print.]
* The Longest Night – A Personal History of Pan Am 103 – Audiobook of the Memoirs of Helen Engelhardt – Midsummer Sound Company.[
* Incident at Altitude – Poem. [http://www.victimsofpanamflight103.org/poetry/memorial/incident_at_altitude] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831110404/http://www.victimsofpanamflight103.org/poetry/memorial/incident_at_altitude |date=31 August 2009 }}][Engelhardt, Helen. "Incident at Altitude – 12/21/88 by Helen Engelhardt." ''Victims of Pan Am Flight 103''. N.p., 21 December 1988. Web. 23 July 2010. [http://www.victimsofpanamflight103.org/poetry/memorial/incident_at_altitude] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831110404/http://www.victimsofpanamflight103.org/poetry/memorial/incident_at_altitude |date=31 August 2009 }}.]
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