Corydon, Ivan Crystal, Rosie Pérez, and Guillermo Pérez. And many thanks to Eugene Mejia, Don Lowrey, and Chris Schaper.
And thanks to the many gym members who have pitched in and helped, supporting Penny through the flood of Labor Day Weekend 2013 and generally through the last two years. You guys are awesome!
Occasionally in life, one comes across a person wiser and stronger than his years. Penny thanks Andrei Karlin, hope of the future, for being himself, which is a wonderful thing to be. We wish him nothing but the very best, though he already has much of that in his family.
Penny thanks Simon Donoghue, for years of friendship, laughter, and historical shenanigans. She looks forward to meeting him in person one day. She also thanks Oscar Shearer for his friendship and everything that means, from workouts to diet tips, conversations to arguments on subjects as varied as cars, Middle Eastern politics, and Spartan warfare. She looks forward to many more years of the same.
* * *
Finally, thanks to Penny’s longtime PS friends, most of them never met in person, but all of them valued as much as those met every day.
In researching this book, we have been lucky to draw upon the patient and amiable help of a number of institutions and archives. We would like to thank Aya Ito and Bill Barker for access to the Hoehling and Hoehling Archive at the Mariners’ Museum, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia; Matthew Chipping of the BBC Archives, Perivale Park, London; the staff of the McCord Museum in Montreal, for help in researching the family of Marguerite Allan; Michaela Strong at the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland; Darren Yearsley of the CBC Radio Archives, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and especially Carol Leadenham of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Carol not only allowed us access to the Bailey and Ryan Archive there but also took the time to show us the handle of an oar inscribed Lusitania, which was donated to the Hoover Institution, and which allegedly came from one of the lifeboats used on May 7, 1915.
Chris Lands, of Seaocean Book Berth in Seattle, located many of the obscure maritime works we used.
We also thank Joan Blacker, Interlibrary Loan Specialist at the Everett Public Library, and the Everett Public Library’s reference staff for their thorough and diligent research and work in locating some of the rare and obscure materials on which this book draws. Their assistance proved invaluable.
We are happy to thank Mary Carpenter of Riverside, California. Mary is the granddaughter of Lusitania passengers Gladys and Albert Clay “Chris” Bilicke. She provided us with anecdotal information regarding her family, which corrected some of the misinformation about them that has seeped into the historical record. She has also shared photographs of her grandparents for use in this book.
Oscar Shearer provided much-needed advice and technological expertise in preparing the illustrations in this book. We thank him for his patience and generosity.
Lusitania historian Michael Poirier not only shared rare, previously unpublished images from his own collection but also contacted researchers and relatives of passengers on our behalf. Thanks to him we have been able to include a number of important photographs, unpublished memoirs, letters, and accounts of the tragedy. We would like to thank Chris Anagnos, the family of Albert Bestic, Mary Jolivet, Paul Latimer, Chester Nimitz Lay and Richard Bailey, Peter Lordan, Marika Pirie, and Rick Timmis for their generosity. We would also especially like to thank Demetrio Baffa Trasci Amalfitani di Crucoli and his family for information on survivor donna Angela Papadopoulos.
A number of people read through this book and gave us much-needed feedback, corrections, and suggestions, as well as helping with research. Janet Ashton kept us up to date on breaking
And thanks to the many gym members who have pitched in and helped, supporting Penny through the flood of Labor Day Weekend 2013 and generally through the last two years. You guys are awesome!
Occasionally in life, one comes across a person wiser and stronger than his years. Penny thanks Andrei Karlin, hope of the future, for being himself, which is a wonderful thing to be. We wish him nothing but the very best, though he already has much of that in his family.
Penny thanks Simon Donoghue, for years of friendship, laughter, and historical shenanigans. She looks forward to meeting him in person one day. She also thanks Oscar Shearer for his friendship and everything that means, from workouts to diet tips, conversations to arguments on subjects as varied as cars, Middle Eastern politics, and Spartan warfare. She looks forward to many more years of the same.
* * *
Finally, thanks to Penny’s longtime PS friends, most of them never met in person, but all of them valued as much as those met every day.
In researching this book, we have been lucky to draw upon the patient and amiable help of a number of institutions and archives. We would like to thank Aya Ito and Bill Barker for access to the Hoehling and Hoehling Archive at the Mariners’ Museum, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia; Matthew Chipping of the BBC Archives, Perivale Park, London; the staff of the McCord Museum in Montreal, for help in researching the family of Marguerite Allan; Michaela Strong at the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland; Darren Yearsley of the CBC Radio Archives, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and especially Carol Leadenham of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Carol not only allowed us access to the Bailey and Ryan Archive there but also took the time to show us the handle of an oar inscribed Lusitania, which was donated to the Hoover Institution, and which allegedly came from one of the lifeboats used on May 7, 1915.
Chris Lands, of Seaocean Book Berth in Seattle, located many of the obscure maritime works we used.
We also thank Joan Blacker, Interlibrary Loan Specialist at the Everett Public Library, and the Everett Public Library’s reference staff for their thorough and diligent research and work in locating some of the rare and obscure materials on which this book draws. Their assistance proved invaluable.
We are happy to thank Mary Carpenter of Riverside, California. Mary is the granddaughter of Lusitania passengers Gladys and Albert Clay “Chris” Bilicke. She provided us with anecdotal information regarding her family, which corrected some of the misinformation about them that has seeped into the historical record. She has also shared photographs of her grandparents for use in this book.
Oscar Shearer provided much-needed advice and technological expertise in preparing the illustrations in this book. We thank him for his patience and generosity.
Lusitania historian Michael Poirier not only shared rare, previously unpublished images from his own collection but also contacted researchers and relatives of passengers on our behalf. Thanks to him we have been able to include a number of important photographs, unpublished memoirs, letters, and accounts of the tragedy. We would like to thank Chris Anagnos, the family of Albert Bestic, Mary Jolivet, Paul Latimer, Chester Nimitz Lay and Richard Bailey, Peter Lordan, Marika Pirie, and Rick Timmis for their generosity. We would also especially like to thank Demetrio Baffa Trasci Amalfitani di Crucoli and his family for information on survivor donna Angela Papadopoulos.
A number of people read through this book and gave us much-needed feedback, corrections, and suggestions, as well as helping with research. Janet Ashton kept us up to date on breaking
Similar Books
