"Dead Wake" Local Connection
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Just finished reading 
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588)]Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania[/color]

Book by Erik Larson.

Great read. And found a local connection. 


MARGARET MACKWORTH and her father, D. A. Thomas, were seated at a table in the first-class dining room with an American doctor and his sister-in-law, Dorothy Conner, twenty-five, from Medford, Oregon. Conner was a woman of energy and candor. She was also bored and given to impetuous remarks. At one point, Conner said, “I can’t help hoping that we get some sort of thrill going up ...
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Quote:On May 1, 1915, Dorothy Conner and her brother-in-law, Dr. Howard Fisher, sailed on first class tickets on the British luxury liner, the RMS Lusitania. They were headed for World War I hospital work in Belgium. Dorothy wrote to her mother near Jacksonville, Ore., that it would be a very boring crossing, and she hoped something exciting might happen on their last day. It did.



http://ijpr.org/post/rogue-valley-s-doro...ia-sinking
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(05-28-2016, 04:51 PM)chuck white Wrote:
Quote:On May 1, 1915, Dorothy Conner and her brother-in-law, Dr. Howard Fisher, sailed on first class tickets on the British luxury liner, the RMS Lusitania. They were headed for World War I hospital work in Belgium. Dorothy wrote to her mother near Jacksonville, Ore., that it would be a very boring crossing, and she hoped something exciting might happen on their last day. It did.



http://ijpr.org/post/rogue-valley-s-doro...ia-sinking

Thanks. I knew the details. I read the book.
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Golden.
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