History draws parallels, local historian gives lecture on Titanic tragedy
Much like the upper deck of the Titanic on that fateful night of April 14, 1912, the First Responders Pavilion in Alameda Park was filled with people waiting to listen to local historian Bill May’s lecture on “The Lost Faces of the Titanic.”
“When you learn about the past, you learn about the future,” audience member John McCool said. “And something like this, with the submersible, is so relevant today.”
On Thursday, June 22, May spoke to nearly 400 people about the accounts of the people whose lives were affected about the over-century old tragedy. Aided by a PowerPoint presentation that included clips from the 1997 record-setting movie “Titanic” May was able to separate the facts from the fiction.
“The movie is pretty accurate,” May said. “It’s pretty accurate, but there (is) some dramatic reshaping.”
