Titanic

While in New York City I visited both Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx and Trinity Church Cemetery and discovered the graves of two prominent New York businessmen, Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy’s Department Stores, and John Jacob Astor IV, real estate tycoon, who both perished on the Titanic on April 15, 1912. As the story […]

On my walk at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I visited the site where 209 victims are buried following the sinking of the Titanic that fateful morning on April 15, 1912, at 2:30 a.m.