Titanic News
around lunchtime on Sunday, the 30th of March 2008 by Chad
Over at Blue Star Chronicles
Lillian Asplund was born in southern Sweden. Her father was a laborer who had dreams of moving the family to California so he could build a better future for his family as part of the American dream. He copied what California had to offer his family from a brochure, apparently so he could tell his wife about it. The family planned the move to America. Ms. Asplund’s father bought third class tickets for himself, his wife, his four sons and his daughter on the maiden voyage of the state of the art ship, Titanic.
Lillian Asplund never talked about her trip from Sweden to America. She never talked about the night the Titanic sank taking with it her father and three older brothers. She, her mother and her baby brother were the only ones in that family to survive that night. When Ms. Asplund died at age 99 years of age, she was the last survivor of the Titanic who had memories of it. Only one other survivor remains, but he was a baby at the time. After her death, family members found a shoe box in which she had kept her memories from the night that defined the rest of her life. The contents of that shoe box are some of the rarest historical artifacts from the Titanic and are going up for auction soon.
It’s pretty amazing that there is still new news coming out about this doomed ship.
Lots of people don’t like history. History is easy: imagine yourself there. Imagine yourself as someone on that boat as it went under. Suddenly history is a lot more interesting.
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March 31st, 2008 at 7:37 am
Hey - thanks for the linkie luv :) That was a fascinating story I thought! Glad you liked it :)
March 31st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Evil historian in me was dying to know what’s in the box.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=547450&in_page_id=1770
Wow, that has some really neat stuff.
How many people in this day and age would have been classy enought to not talk about it? Or would they now be fistfighting to get to the mike first? Then they would start crying about how it was someone else’s fault. Then the government would have to bail them out. Then the government would be blamed for not doing enough, while at the same time, doing way too much. Ooops, Katrina flashbacks, sorry.