The RMS Titanic, courtesy of the Library of Congress
While we USA folks were struggling to get our taxes handled a couple days ago on April 15th, we shouldn’t have been fussing or celebrating, we should have been thinking of the lives lost aboard the RMS Titanic–which sunk 100 years ago on that day. Since this week marks that horrific — albeit fascinating — event that has held our culture’s attention for a century, you should brush up on the visuals…not the new national geographic images, not the sumbarine images captured by James Cameron. Try the final images of the ship floating. Or the images of passenger’s being rescued. They’re stunning, beautiful and eerie wrapped in one. Scroll thru the tabs above this image to see the “before” shots of the “unsinkable” ship.
Many of the most moving photos are from the National Archives of both the UK and the US. As you’ll see by scrolling thru the images, lucky for us, someone on the Carpathia — the first ship that came to assist the survivors — had a camera onboard.
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(all images courtesy of the Library of Congress, and the archives above)
An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a friend who had been conducting a little research on this. And he in fact ordered me dinner because I stumbled upon it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending some time to discuss this issue here on your website.
This is absolutely brilliant! Congratulations on trying to revitalize the written word no texting, no email, no whatever’s next! I don’t own a computer proud of being “computer free”. Maybe old fashioned, but receiving a hand written letter is going to be so refreshing! Thank you for focusing on a rapidly declining art the hand written letter and/or note.Can’t wait to receive my first letter! Judy Robertson
I simply can not come across a place here to order a subscribtion to “Letters in the Mail” for just a present or two and also for myself.It sounds like a wonderful idea and several of my good friends will likely be delighted to receive letters in the mail….Diane
We enjoyed fresh maple syrup on pancakes for breakfast this morning! With sugaring season in full swing in New England, and our supply refreshed, I am contemplating of other ways our family members may well use the sweet stuff this week: glaze for ham tomorrow night and my hubby’s favoriteover vanilla ice cream!
I think the same thing happens with older kids too, when they are exposed to media that is too complex for their social/emotional development. When the movie Mean Girls came out, some of our 5th grade girls were allowed to watch it at a sleepover. They promptly made their own “burn book” like the bullying characters in the movie, and wreaked havoc in the 5th grade girls’ social world. They got the message to do whatever it takes to be “popular” but not the message about how others would think that those behaviors would make others dislike them. I immediately thought of this situation when I read the study. Ironically, the prevention lessons about bullying and relational aggression that I had taught previous to this incident, and the interventions that I put into place in response to it were based on Rosalind Wiseman’s book Queen Bees and Wannabees, which was the inspiration for Mean Girls.