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My fascination with Titanic began in 1984. I was exploring the library in my junior high school when I came across a book with a painting on the cover of a big ship. I opened the book and started to read. The book was "A Night to Remember," Walter Lord's 1955 classic account of the Titanic disaster.
From page one, I was hooked by a story that got right to the central action. It put us in the crow's nest a minute before the iceberg was sighted. From there, I was drawn into a story of, as Lord so eloquently put it, "the last night of a small town."
Like so many of my fellow Titanic devotees, it was Lord's book that first captured my imagination. Titanic has been a fascination ever since.
In 1984, Titanic books and information were hard to come by -- especially in Kansas. This was 70 years after the disaster. Before the Internet and eBay. While browsing through an almanac of all things, I found an organization called the Titanic Historical Society. I sent the president a letter and soon got an invitation to become a member.
I joined the society about a year before Sept. 1, 1985 -- the day Robert Ballard and a French-American team of explorers discovered the wreck of the Titanic. The society's membership increased three-fold virtually overnight. Soon the sad little photocopied newsletter (black and white and stapled) became a four-color magazine, and the society really came into its own.
In college friends would often ask why I was so interested in the Titanic. They wanted to know more. E-mail was first offered to us during senior year, and I started an e-mail list called "Daily Dose of Titanic." Each day I sent out an interesting tidbit. People got hooked. They couldn't get enough. And when I skipped a day, they were like addicts looking for a fix.
Now, with the power of the blog, I am bringing Daily Dose of Titanic back from the abyss. I hope you enjoy it. Daily Dose of Titanic shares in the mission of the Titanic Historical Society, which is to preserve the memory of Titanic for future generations.
Enjoy!
From page one, I was hooked by a story that got right to the central action. It put us in the crow's nest a minute before the iceberg was sighted. From there, I was drawn into a story of, as Lord so eloquently put it, "the last night of a small town."
Like so many of my fellow Titanic devotees, it was Lord's book that first captured my imagination. Titanic has been a fascination ever since.
In 1984, Titanic books and information were hard to come by -- especially in Kansas. This was 70 years after the disaster. Before the Internet and eBay. While browsing through an almanac of all things, I found an organization called the Titanic Historical Society. I sent the president a letter and soon got an invitation to become a member.
I joined the society about a year before Sept. 1, 1985 -- the day Robert Ballard and a French-American team of explorers discovered the wreck of the Titanic. The society's membership increased three-fold virtually overnight. Soon the sad little photocopied newsletter (black and white and stapled) became a four-color magazine, and the society really came into its own.
In college friends would often ask why I was so interested in the Titanic. They wanted to know more. E-mail was first offered to us during senior year, and I started an e-mail list called "Daily Dose of Titanic." Each day I sent out an interesting tidbit. People got hooked. They couldn't get enough. And when I skipped a day, they were like addicts looking for a fix.
Now, with the power of the blog, I am bringing Daily Dose of Titanic back from the abyss. I hope you enjoy it. Daily Dose of Titanic shares in the mission of the Titanic Historical Society, which is to preserve the memory of Titanic for future generations.
Enjoy!
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