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WAITSBURG - When Swissair Flight 111 went down off the coast near St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1998, a newspaper ac­count

of the crash described the nighttime waters at the site as "inky." Canadian artist Michelle Forsyth took that descrip­tion to set the context for a sculpture she dedicated to the air disaster that killed all 229 aboard. Her piece, "For September Second," is now on display at AMO Art Gal­lery on Main Street, open by appointment. She worked the nighttime darkness into her installation by using a charcoal-black platform on which to set her screen-printed waves of g...