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Apr 29, 2007 9:00 am US/Eastern

Danvers Kids Recall Explosion With Drawings, Poems

Slideshow: Danvers Explosion

DANVERS (WBZ) ― When an ink manufacturing plant exploded and damaged dozens of homes in Danvers last year, children at the Riverside Elementary School were bewildered by the sudden destruction.

Then they picked up their crayons and pencils and got to work.

Five months later the children's poems and brightly drawn illustrations of the explosion have been compiled into a 28-page booklet called "The Big Boom."

In her poem, fourth grader Corey Crossley described feeling her house shake and running out into the night with her family.

Teachers at the school say the project gave the children a chance to express their own fears and feelings about the explosion in words and pictures.

About 70 homes were damaged and 400 people displaced because of the explosion.

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