TITANIC week, day 1!
Jun. 7th, 2021 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeLet me introduce you to Douglas Ross via his Amazon bio:
He is the author of The Life of a North Atlantic Liner: Royal Mail Steamer Titanic:
Recently, I put some questions to him about his long-standing interest in the Titanic. I'm going to share a question--and Doug's response--a day throughout the week.
TODAY'S QUESTION: Can you describe your first experience with the Titanic and how you began to realize you loved it?
My love of Titanic began in elementary school in 1996. Two of the fourth grade classrooms (Room 10 and 11 respectively) at Dorman Elementary School in Springfield, MA, were doing a reading project as part of the general curriculum on the Titanic for about two weeks. What fascinated me was the fact that a supposedly unsinkable ship was lost, sank with a huge loss of life, and then was discovered years later.
Prior to Titanic I was obsessed with tornadoes and the awesome power of weather and city and school buses, but that changed once Titanic entered my life, which was exactly 25 years ago. My obsession was not always taken seriously, and it was at times used against me during very rough periods in my public education, when I was made fun of for liking a ‘’white’’ disaster because a mixed black person liking something from 1912 was seen as peculiar to many people of all backgrounds.
Douglas Ross is a lifelong Titanic and ocean liner enthusiast and a nonfiction writer who has written political and social articles in his local newspaper. Formerly a human rights and disability commissioner in Massachusetts, he has advocated for the civil rights of others in the past.
A resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Douglas enjoys reading historical books, bicycle riding, watching historical films and documentaries, exploring cities and towns and riding trains and buses of the United States. He is a fan of Great Britain, Lucille Ball, Princess Diana, Morgan Freeman, Lyndon Johnson and Samuel Cunard. (read more)
He is the author of The Life of a North Atlantic Liner: Royal Mail Steamer Titanic:
Recently, I put some questions to him about his long-standing interest in the Titanic. I'm going to share a question--and Doug's response--a day throughout the week.
TODAY'S QUESTION: Can you describe your first experience with the Titanic and how you began to realize you loved it?
My love of Titanic began in elementary school in 1996. Two of the fourth grade classrooms (Room 10 and 11 respectively) at Dorman Elementary School in Springfield, MA, were doing a reading project as part of the general curriculum on the Titanic for about two weeks. What fascinated me was the fact that a supposedly unsinkable ship was lost, sank with a huge loss of life, and then was discovered years later.
Prior to Titanic I was obsessed with tornadoes and the awesome power of weather and city and school buses, but that changed once Titanic entered my life, which was exactly 25 years ago. My obsession was not always taken seriously, and it was at times used against me during very rough periods in my public education, when I was made fun of for liking a ‘’white’’ disaster because a mixed black person liking something from 1912 was seen as peculiar to many people of all backgrounds.
