I'm excited to bring you an interview with Jim Myers, who is the Education Executive for both Titanic Museum Attractions (Branson, Missouri, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee). We speak about the museum's goals of memorializing both the survivors and the victims of Titanic, its role as an interactive attraction, its efforts to broaden educational programs around the ship, and also just some of Titanic's achingly human stories. I managed to only mention James Cameron's Titanic ONCE...can you believe it?

For March, the museums have a special exhibit honoring Irish passengers, and we speak a bit about it.

To plan your visit to one of the ships (for the museum buildings are half-scale ships!) or to contact Jim about an educational program for your class/school, see the museum's great website: https://titanicbranson.com for Branson and https://titanicpigeonforge.com for Pigeon Forge.

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Join me as I chat with author Hazel Gaynor, who has SUCH a refreshing take on Titanic's legacy; her book, The Girl Who Came Home, is a peek into some of the smaller, gorgeously human moments aboard the ship, and specifically those of the Irish immigrants she focuses on. This book is a fictionalization of  the ship's real Irish passengers know as the Addergoole 14, who we talk a bit about in terms of collective grief and their legacy. We touch on the role of historical fiction in helping us all to process the tragedy, as well as just historical fiction's value more generally. This was a delight, and I congratulate Hazel on 10 years with this compelling novel of the Titanic!

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This episode is dedicated to every man/woman/child suffering and in fear in Ukraine right now.

To help, donate:

To UNICEF, which helps children in urgent need of help, and right now you can flag your donation for Ukraine: https://www.unicefusa.org

To World Central Kitchen, which works to FEED people in conflict zones, disaster zones, and they're in Ukraine and on the borders right now: https://donate.wck.org/give/393234#!/donation/checkout

For a brief recent history of Ukraine: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/12/1080205477/history-ukraine-russia

Sending love to you all. 

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*(Quick note: I had some minor sound issues for this episode and I'm aware the audio quality is not quite up to standard--don't worry, this will be sorted out by next episode!)

Join me as I detail of the life of Joseph Laroche, the sole black man on the Titanic, whose story is so much more  than that factoid of a label would lead one to believe; his life intersected with crucial moments in Haitian history and in French history, and his marriage to a woman named Juliette highlights so many facets of race relations in the early twentieth century. But more importantly, their love was, it seems, quite powerful, and their family's story and legacy deserve to be told. I also address some themes of race and Titanic--how black culture processed the disaster through folklore, how race was on the ship in the form of passengers from all over the world and how they were portrayed in the wake of the sinking.

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In this last episode for my series on the 1997 movie, I go off script and recount the Titanic cultural phenomena but also the very personal feelings I have about it and how it relates to our understanding of the ship, film history, memory, grief. I also go over the many/pervasive pop culture references from the past 25 years, including some that listeners wrote in about. This is a grab bag. This is me coming to terms with my love of a thing. This is Titanic Forever. Join me. *A special thanks to my husband John for being such a good sport.

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In some ways I think I've been waiting to record this episode for 25 years, but I wouldn't have been ready until this moment. I cover the ways in which the Titanic disaster has been viewed along gender lines and how the cultural history of it has been shaped by gender. I examine how the character of Rose, from 1997's Titanic, fits into the historical fabric of 1912 but also how she inspired and influenced a generation of young women (and men I'm sure!). I also highlight some crucial women's rights history of the era and touch on a few stories of actual female Titanic passengers who broke some norms of the time and were, as Rose is, complete badasses!

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Cheers!

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Author Gareth Russell and I have a wonderfully in-depth conversation about the complexities of the lives of several of Titanic’s first-class passengers. If you follow the pod, you know I talk a lot about the Titanic mythologies, these long-held visions of some of the storied passengers, and we address many of them in a blunt way. It’s quite refreshing. We also talk importantly about the creation of historical narrative and how a person’s own beliefs, emotions, prejudices inform how they interpret something, which, if you know me at all on this pod, you know is one of my most beloved themes. Gareth’s book was essential for me a couple of years ago as I dipped my toes back into Titanic history after a bit of a hiatus, and honestly it was a huge impetus in me working towards this podcast. To note, we also had a BLAST! Gareth is so fun to chat with and I wish we’d had ten hours to talk.

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Find Gareth’s great podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/single-malt-history-with-gareth-russell/id1565005422

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This second installment  turns partly into an exploration of some of the real passengers aboard the ship and their portrayals in James Cameron's film--Thomas Andrews, Margaret Brown, Archibald Gracie. I also discuss, with quite a bit of detail, how Cameron and his crew seamlessly constructed the ship and the sinking from a combination of practical, digital, and hybrid shots. Toss in a little bit of set gossip and me (of course, who is shocked) defending the finished product against those who doubt its accuracy! Cheers!

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Some exciting announcements of upcoming Book Club picks and author conversations!

February 2022--Gareth Russell's Ship of Dreams
March 2022--Hazel Gaynor's The Girl Who Came Home

And looking ahead to April for a joint read--Ben Raines' The Last Slave Ship

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This is part one of a truly surgical look at the making of James Cameron's Titanic, arguably one of the most popular/successful/beloved/fill-in-any-blank film of all time. Even if you're not a true Titanic-movie person, this will be of interest to you, for the painstaking links Cameron goes to in order to re-build the ship and the world of 1912.

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