ASHEBORO – The stories of people who boarded the R.M.S. Titanic on April 10, 1912, and sailed off into immortality will come to life in “Titanic: Ship of Dreams,” a talk by Belmont Abbey College professor Dr. Melina Ratchford at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20, at the Asheboro Public Library.
Ratchford also will show her extensive collection of Titanic memorabilia.
Her talk, supported by the Friends of the Randolph County Public Libraries, is free and the public is invited.
Ratchford’s presentation offers a glimpse into the world of 1912 and the amazing people who traveled on Titanic, the largest and most luxurious ship in the world. Meet the young Robert Spedden and his Stief Teddy bear named Polar; the world’s richest man and his beautiful wife new wife who had to leave New York society under a cloud of shame; and the elderly man and wife who tested the vow “till death do we part,” and many others among the 2,228 souls on board. Experience the world of courage, fear, love and cowardice that is still alive over 100 years after the ship’s sinking.
Study of Titanic has been a 60-year avocation for Ratchford, who has visited all the sites that have Titanic connections, including Belfast, where the ship was built; Southampton, from where it sailed; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the bodies were interred. In 1996, she spent a week at the site of the sinking in the North Atlantic.
Ratchford worked in the North Carolina public schools for 31 years. She is currently an associate professor in the Sister Christine Beck Department of Education at Belmont Abbey College, where in 2002 she received the Adrian Faculty Excellence Award.
The library is located at 201 Worth Street. For further information, call 336-318-6803.
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