Q&A with Titanic Tour Guide Dave Gardner

This year we’re excited to present a brand new tour, Titanic Graves of Woodlawn Cemetery, led by Titanic tour guide Dave Gardner. We sat down for a Q&A with Dave to get inside the head of this city’s foremost expert on the Ship of Dreams, who may or...

Titanic Graves of Woodlawn Cemetery

Boroughs of the Dead is excited to announce a brand new walking tour: “Titanic Graves of Woodlawn Cemetery.” What does the world’s most famous sailing vessel have to do with a cemetery in the Bronx? Much more, it turns out, than we may imagine. The story...

Ghosts of the Titanic

   On April 12, 1912 the Royal Mail Ship Titanic made her ill-fated maiden voyage across the Atlantic, destined for New York. New York City never saw Titanic, but the city still harbors a fair share of its memories – and of its ghosts.   Uncanny and eerie...

Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche

One of the things that makes Titanic an eternal source of fascination for me is the sheer number of people and stories aboard the ship (with approximately 1,300 passengers and 900 crew, you’ve got a lifetime of research ahead of you should you choose to go down...

Lucky Star: Violet Jessop

  When speaking about Titanic, phrases like “unlucky,” “ill-fated,” and even “star-crossed” get bandied around a lot. Yet for all the bad luck surrounding the boat, there were a great number of people who exhibited...

The Real Unsinkable Margaret “Molly” Brown

  I’ve been reading a lot about Titanic lately, as I do around this time every year, and one of my favorite surprising recent discoveries has been that the real “Unsinkable Molly Brown” is actually far, far more interesting than movies and TV...