We've had a fair bit of pleasure down the years reading this book which David and Barb gave Lewis when he was a little boy - and we read it again tonight having heard that Maurice Sendak had passed away...
And he sailed off through night and day
and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
I had intended taking a picture of Miranda with her Titanic model that she made on the weekend as I'd seen a superb
blog post on the Iconic Photos website earlier about a certain Father Browne... maybe we'll getthe photo another day.
"In James Cameron’s Titanic, there was a scene,
as the protagonist played by Leonardo DiCaprio sneaks onto the first
class deck, of a child and his father playing with a spinning top on the
promenade. That innocent scene of domestic bliss Cameron copied
directly from a famous photograph actually taken abroad the Titanic by one Jesuit novitiate named Francis Browne.
Browne, later better known as Father
Browne, sailed with the ship for the first leg of its journey, from
Southampton, England, to Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. Although a
wealthy family he befriended while on the Titanic asked him to
continue the journey all the way to New York, his superior at Queenstown
sent him a laconic, but providential, telegram requesting him to
disembark.
Therefore, Browne became one of only
eight people who disembarked from Titanic; back to his post, Browne
carried back around 1,000 photographs taken between April 10th and April
12th 1912 on and around the ship. They were the only photographs taken
of ‘Titanic’."
Elsewhere I also turned up a really interesting article about a boat built locally on the Designboom site, so two recommendations today!! Check out
The Boat Project
