Last week I visited the Titanic Historical Museum
in Springfield MA (in the “Indian Orchard” part of
town). It’s in the back of a jewelry-gift store and
low priced. Nice woman showed me around—widow of the
founder. She and her husband are extras in the 1997
film based on the disaster.
I had to admit to her I had not seen either the 1950s
A Night To Remember nor the more recent James Cameron “Titnic”.Well a couple days later I did rent/on demand of
the ‘97 one, and later I saw the 50s one for free on
youtube. Both pretty good.
Today I saw online the scene the woman and her husband
appear in is when Leo DiCaprio’s character is teaching
Kate Winslet’s char how to spit.
Both show the efforts to get off and the mammoth ship
sinking in about 2 hours..winding up under more than
2 miles of water.
“Oh Lord the sea is so great and I am so small”
Mr. Inspectorette and I visited the graves of some of the many who perished on the Titanic, some known and some unknown in Halifax, N.S. Very somber at the realization of so many souls lost in the icy waters.