April 20, 2012

When the rope was lowered allowing us to enter the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit we were each handed a red rose and a boarding pass for the vessel, bearing a passenger’s name. Our tickets were for April 15th 2012, exactly 100 years from the day the doomed behemoth plunged two and a half miles down through the frigid North Atlantic waters to the ocean floor. The name on my boarding pass was Mrs. Frederick Quick (Jane Richards), a 33-year-old…