Such a dinner party was presented last year in April by the Ethan Allen Hotel in Danbury. We want to recreate, not just the state room of the ship, not just the food served, but a past era of almost unimaginable opulence. We find myriad ways to tell it again and again �- through art, books, movies, Broadway musicals.Īnd yes, we even throw dinner parties to remember the Titanic. The Titanic's story, however one tells it, is unforgettable. He tracked down 60 survivors to complete the book. Lord, who died in 2002, wrote about the ship's demise in his bestselling "A Night to Remember," published in 1955. Proclaimed the largest ship in the world, widely touted as unsinkable, she hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage and went down, taking with her many of the great celebrities of the day, as well as hundreds of immigrants hoping for a fresh start in the New World." In a preface to the book "Last Dinner Aboard the Titanic," author and historian Walter Lord wrote: We are endlessly fascinated with the luxurious and doomed ocean liner that, for almost a century, has rested silently on the bottom the Atlantic.
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