(Virtual) Prologue: Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Henry, May 10th whqr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from whqr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
There are two stories, 180 years apart; two casts of characters.
In 2018, our first-person narrator, Everly Winthrop, of an old Savannah family, is a history professor at SCAD and a museum curator.
She had, just a year earlier, endured a horrific event. At a parade, a drunk driver ploughed into the crowd and killed Everly’s best friend, Mora.
It could just as well have been Everly who died. Why wasn’t it? Although the real guilty party was the drunk driver, Everly is sunk in grief and very pointed survivor guilt, which has isolated her, cut her off from family and friends, from joy, from life. Now in unproductive therapy, Everly is bitter.
By Alec Harvey
Patti Callahan s Surviving Savannah comes out on March 9.
About 75 years before the Titanic set sail from England for the first time and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, something eerily similar happened in the Atlantic Ocean much closer to home.
At 11:04 p.m. on the night of June 14, 1838, the steamship Pulaski had an explosion in its boiler room.
It sank 45 minutes later, as passengers, including some of the elite of Charleston and Savannah headed north for the summer, scrambled for safety, hampered by the lack of working lifeboats on the ship. About 200 people were on board, and more than half of them died.
Patti Callahan s Surviving Savannah examines history of Pulaski ship savannahnow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from savannahnow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.