Up next, Bob Gallagher with the Scituate Historical Society recounts the rescue of its 30 man crew and the National Attention it brought to the small town of scituate. Bob it will be 61 years next week that the big show in bololand the American Relief expedition to soviet russia in the famine of 1921 came that ship, that ss etrusco came ashore on cedar point. Every facet of life was being set aside. This was no less true of scituate when ss etrusco grounded. All of these towns were going through a lot of change. Here we see Nikita Khrushchev taking over for stalin, one of our first tvs, and my fair lady. These are some of the changes. We will come back to some of these things as we go through. An example, february 23, 1956, Martin Luther king jr. Was invited indicted for his participation in the montgomery bus boycott. Here is the state of alabama squaring out its complaint. He presented himself at the county courthouse and was released on bond. You see in 56 changes in civilrights that suburbs will see a big result of. The basic facts of the grounding rvs. A ship and ballast turned away from boston. It has become a running punchline that it was a bad idea to be an italian ship on st. Patricks day. [laughter] the ship find itself tossed ashore. Townspeople and authorities rescue the crew and the salvage operation against this amazing transformation of a small town in 1956. Yes . What is the meaning of and ballast . What is the meaning of in ballast . It means empty. You do not have cargo. It was coming for cargo and they asked to be allowed into boston harbor. Harbor pilots told them it was too dangerous to board and recommended to the captain that he try to make it out to sea. He was not able to, because he was bobbing like a cork on top of the ocean. This was a horrific storm, as you will see in headlines in a minute. This was no runofthemill blizzard. There will be one a week later that was even worse. The shipwreck was not the first time this happened at Scituate Light. Going back to the 1850s we know that the ship elizabeth washed up precisely where ss etrusco did. In 1886 we have a rescue there of eight men when there was no keeper on the station. One of the stories of Scituate Light i tell quite regularly, for as much as we love it, and we dearly love it, it never worked. From the minute it was turned on her mother was request after request to turn it off. From the minute it was turned on, there was request after request to turn it off. The light collapses in april of 51 and the Scituate Light is brought back into service. In november of 1861 when the current light is brought on service, Scituate Light is retired and not lit again until 1994. So, there was no keeper. There was tenets, but no keeper there were tenets but no keeper in the 1886 storm. Even the wreck of the kenwood in 1926. This is dangerous, dangerous ground. Here is from ballous pictorial some of the ribs of the elizabeth found exactly where the etrusco lands. Here is our breakdown of the 1886 storm. The abandonment of Scituate Light was in no way reasonable. They wanted a light there badly. Here we see the pilot but columbia from the 1896 storm turned in to a teahouse at for a time. Here is kenwood, a lumbar schooner. A lumbar a lumber schooner. Here are the shipwreck i had in 2011. Here is a shipwreck i had in 2011. [laughter] a rookie sailor takes himself out on a windy day and finds himself calling cito. Here are some of the first headlines from ss etrusco. It was quite a storm. Here are more headlines. Four destroyers beach in storm. The grounding was covered all over the United States. It is indicative of how much smaller the world was becoming. In 1956, you have a town of less than 8000 and stories are being covered in ottowa, being covered in lewiston maine lewiston, maine. Spokane, washington. They get a lot wrong. They tell us the ship capsized, which it did not. It is daytona, where they got it so badly wrong. That is daytona, where they got it so badly wrong. The problems posed by address go trust co. Etrusco were complicated by a storm a week later. I run Summer School. I dont go home. So, it is not an issue to me. So, i did get my first email from somebody wanted to know when Summer School began. I thought, there is somebody that has thrown in there hat already. [laughter] a week later, the 23rd of march, there was this horrific storm that saw 116 dead and a second blizzard across the United States. A guy named mike kammer mike hammer was a coast guard men who served in the rescue team. He shared with us his scrapbook just prior to the anniversary. Here are some of his images from that book. In this image, we see a lot of the gear they brought out and the difficult conditions. This storm came in fast in a short time. The coast guard was up against it. It was complicated further by, they lost all power in their headquarters. One of the technicians who became involved in this, a radio guy, actually did the trick of taking the silver wrapper from a pack of gum and putting it behind the fuse to bring the lights back up at the coast guard. Here we see a few more images including the buoy they used to bring people off. It was one of the last times they used that tool in a rescue in the coast guard anyway. Some of these guys here, you see a little bit of a beret. We have better pictures you will see in a minute. Some of those guys were coast guard workers, cadets, i guess. They were running up and kept pulling different lines out. The great concern initially was the ship would tip over on the beach. Through luck, and it would take more contacts and i have time to give you, it is in a tremendous field of stone, and it just bounced up and down on the field of stone until it came to rest. So, here is kevin walsh, an assistant to a brockton enterprise photographer. Mr. Baumans photograph are a remarkable resource stored at stonehill college. You have access online to them. Kevin walsh was his assistant. He came to our Anniversary Dinner and brought much better Quality Images than we had, including these. Here, again, that is the beret. I think we can see, though not as well as in the other picture. And here is on the the text on the back of that image. It is brought safely to the beach by coast guard men. The freighter was thrust under rocky scituate beach in a new england blizzard on march 16, 1956. A review of these headlines in the scrapbook that i find myself considering the other issues competing. Tales of ss etrusco were found alongside stories of malakoff denouncing stalin and khrushchev coming to power in the soviet union. This is from milwaukee. It had a headline on the ss etrusco and the story from the soviet union. So, the 25th, Nikita Khrushchev had denounced joe stalin during his time as chairman. It set off this reverberation that the cold war was going to end because stalin was gone and khrushchev had emerged from this troika that had been running the soviet union. It was going to connect later on to events in berlin and cuba with this change. The world got a little safer and a little more dangerous at the same time. On a more positive note, four days prior, Elvis Pressley released his first album. So, two days later, my fair lady debuts. This is a picture of Elvis Pressley on stage, march 17, 1956. With the dorsey brothers stage show. Two television staples. I did not know what kind of connection we might have her tonight, here tonight, but in earlier presentations i was actually able to play a little of this so you can hear the same theme music you might remember from these soap operas. Early april, 1950 six, as the world turns, and the edge of night. Three days after the bowl the wedding of princess grace, elvis has his first number one. I do not think it is unreasonable that a lot of the radios and cars making their way through cedar point that summer were playing hound dog or heartbreak hotel. This one ended up with a big singalong. This was my mothers favorite song. We had a lot of que sera sera belting through a Methodist Church about a year ago. My mother graduated from high school and nobody liked doris day let my mom, very big in 56. Changes press down in a lot of towns like this. For 18 years, scituate had been asking to build a new high school. There are been call after call. This was part of another set of research i had done in this building. It just turned 100 last year. It is soon to be retired. For the sake of a new school. We did a little history retrospective. Our society turned 100 just as this school was turning 100. Put the pair together and try to tell both stories. In doing that, i found out that the School Department had been looking for a new school for 18 years. Five years after ss etrusco, that change was coming fast. The growth of the town was so profound, it could no longer be put off. David ball, the source for all of this, his book. He is our president and our five wrote a book called ss etrusco cradletograve. When david and i were giving a talk on world war ii we had a chance to interview a woman named beryl tinker. Her father was part of the Civil Defense group in the 50s. He came out that night and carried the ball for the coast guard. Coast guard equipment was failing. These guys had radios they had been trained on. Buster sylvester in particular was on all night long coordinating a number of different people, including jim howard and wayne tesla in different locations. They were the communication web. They were all pretty young guys. I mike hammers scrapbook included this clip that says they were the unsung heroes. We mark that contribution and their contributions to another scituate i placing a stone last summer with a relief of the ss etrusco carved into it outside of the light. The Howard Family raised the money for it. You will see some other images of jen in jim in a minute. Here is jim howard in misses russos kitchen. He came with this radio. He cant he had come out of the movies. The snow was deep enough that his father had to drive drop him off at the top of the point. He walked in carrying it against the wind. He sat up in misses russos kitchen and was there all night. They figured out very early that they were being, that the crewmen were using flags initially. Once they had a radio, they were able to communicate. They were able to assure them where they were. It was about 8 00 at night that became a ground and the storm got worse and worse. It was not until about 4 00 in the morning that they got them off. Rescued seamen find warm scituate haven. It is always referred to as messieurs messieurs versus misses russos house. She took this group in and happen to speak the dialect they spoke. She was about 59yearold years old and had about 39 breakfast guests from the old country. Other families took them in as well, but misses russo would be the person decorated by the coast guard for her role in this. She brought them in and made them welcome. Here they are in misses russos house. This is our captain. He was very reluctant to leave the ship. He was concerned about the trouble he would be in. There was a firm out of correspondence with the captain and local officials in scituate and the coast guard after the event. He had to convince them back home that he had not abandon ship. That he had not abandoned ship. The story comes back to us because there is an operation out of south boston called the boston seamen friend society. A gentleman brought this flyer in and asked, was there anybody there that knew anything about the ss etrusco . They were put in contact with david ball. This gentleman was able to connect us with the youngest crewmen. They had a two year correspondence with Giovanni Bell fiore and another friend of ours named tom hall went to italy and interviewed him. My hope is this summer, adding to the display we already have on the ss etrusco outside, i will be able to add technology that will allow you to come with your phone and click something and see these interviews on your phone. That is my hope. I am trying to make it field trip really for teachers. Here is Giovanni Bell furies belfiores sailing papers. Here he is with misses russo. He remembered how kind she was to him. He claimed to be the first person who saw the red light, the official signal at the end of our north jetty. He said it was about 8 00 and they knew the kind of trouble they were in. He said, i saw the red light and i told the captain. He said that in somewhat broken english. And they worried until he finds himself in the very good hands of misses russo. Here he is in 2004. Striking. He has passed. Here are some other wonderful images that were shared. These were in a folder. Our archivist handed them off to me and said, i do not know what these are, but will you find out . These turned out all to be images of the ss etrusco taken by stanley bowman. We somehow had some of the negatives. Misses russo was elevated by the coast guard. Kevin walsh brought us this one. We have the plaque at the russo family donated to the maritime museum. That the russo family donated to the maritime museum. Also seen in this photograph is a flag that has since been donated to our museum given by the crew of the ss etrusco to cwl william miller. It came down in his family. Another one of our trustees, allison short, was able to contact them through facebook and negotiate through facebook so this flag has been returned. So, at the same time, misses russo was recognized by the crew, this flag was given to the coast guard. It has since been returned to scituate, where we are really grateful to include it. It was donated to us on the event where we dedicated this relief, this stone, to jim howard, and the others. We are thrilled to get it and it looks great. It is a great addition for us. Next, please. Here we have some images of the ss etrusco. You get a sense of the scale of it. I go up quite regularly to the topoftheline. It is me against the spiders. I like to win. [laughter] so, i go up a lot. I never go up that i do not look to my left and imagine that ship there. I really encourage this in my students and in anybody that has an interest to try to develop what i referred to as a historical imagination. The on the two dimensions of just seeing the picture, smell the oil. There are neighbors who still say they have neighbor oil in their house from the ss etrusco. Hear the clanging of the lines and the grinding of the rocks. Bring the senses in. It makes all the difference in deepening your feel for the event. The light was not in service. In fact, the tower was only a few years away from being condemned. We have images from the 60s, home movies from the family that live there, where you can see the tower had been condemned. Here you have a nice shot of the ship. It gives you there, they are, it gives you a sense of cedar point. There, a gives u. S. It gives you a sense of cedar point. It was 430 feet and weighed 700 tons. And, it was empty. That was the problem. I have an image at home, a cousin of mine, i moved in the light, and my cousin and uncle had lived in scituate in the 50s and moved out in the early 60s. Joni was still young when they moved out. I said to her, there is no way uncle tom did not take pictures of these things. He took home movies of everything. So, where are they . She said, i dont know where you are talking about. She had lived in connecticut most of her life and scituate did not resonate with her. At one point, my sister heard about this back and forth. She said joan, go downstairs, walk straight ahead, take two ship steps to your right. That is the ss etrusco. [laughter] here is another shot. It is one of our few in color. There are not many in color. Next, please. If we can go ahead. Here is a good one for scale. Here is a good one a great one for scale. If you were to come to Scituate Light for a tour, there is the keepers cottage. We bring you in and there are a number of artifacts we try to share and tell you the story of the house and some of the families. Then, we have a runway that connects the house to the tower. In the runway, there are a number of things, different stories, and a really terrific image of the scale of the ship against a sixfoot tall gentleman who was alongside, probably one of the salvages. The salvage jurors the salvagers. How high was it . Bob i am going to say 120 feet. I think i am really close, but i have to say no one has ever been able to answer that to my satisfaction. But i know what our skill is. So, i try to do it just using a picture and i came up with about 120 feet. Say that again, there . Just say that again, sir . Say that again, sir . Yes, all the way to the top. Bob these were liberty ships. I probably shouldve included that in this. Yes, it was the ford poplar. You read davids book. This was once the ford poplar built for the second world war. It was sold donated to the italians in the aftermath of the war when they did not have a fleet and it returns to the United States as the ss etrusco. That will not be its last name. We will continue. We have a few more. I like that one because you see the light. So, the story shifts to one of salvage in and tremendous curls will come to see the ss etrusco. We add in a few other things that launch as ahead and give us contacts. On june 8, 1956, Richard B Fitzgibbon of stoneham will be the First American servicemen killed in vietnam. His son will also be killed or nine years later. Killed there nine years later. A major steelwork strike will highlight corruption and make the ss etrusco really valuable. If you can get a ship back to see, you have real value, because the steelworker strike slow down production. Chuck berry hits with rollover beethoven. And, i in god we trust becomes the official motto of the United States. July 30, 1956, Jackson Pollock died. The last soldier that served in the union army dies at 100 and nine. Dies at 109. And at the last confederate survives him until 1959. Here are some pictures of those people. Here we have our lost veterans, mr. Pollock, chuck berry, our union vet, and in god we trust. Other milestones. The breakup of dean martin and jerry lewis. A fascinating story. I read a book about it this summer and it was amazing. Amazing. Marilyn monroe and Arthur Miller get hitched. Next, please. We are not connected in a way to show you, but i will tell you about the durants. Our current clerk is Alan Alastair ran alice doran. Her dad and uncle did a lot of filming of the ss etrusco. You have access on youtube. What i like best is towards the end they say, there it goes, should have just blown it up. This story, and here is an image that gives you the scale, cape girardeau, missouri. These kids come down to the beach. We will see something that reminds us of this before we are done. Here are the crowds. Now, we have open house states. Dates. I think our first is in may. People will come. They come from everywhere. At some point, at each hour, someone will say to me, a bunch of us just jump in the back of a truck. We had to come down and see the ss etrusco. My mom came on a date, as i shared earlier. We never did determine if it was was with my father or not. She lived in newton. My dear friend misses palmer came one day with her grandchildren and said, i know i did not come with john. Her grandchildren got a little cross. [laughter] here are some more tastes of this crazy summer. This is an image someone took along the winding road, i think stockbridge road. Again, the connection i try to make, because i think to go from , one of the things i encourage with my students is to go from the particulars to the more general and back. You will see president eisenhower in the mid1956, propose the federal highway system that we have today. The target year, this is kind of funny, was not 1950 eight for completing it and the costal stony 5 billion. They did complete it in 1993 at 425 billion. Only one stripped that stretch of it was never built between dedham and the north shore. Only one stretch of it was never built between adam and the north shore. Who is this . The founder of mcdonalds. Again, a good part of it. We had our own sounder in scituate and his name was bill oconnell. Our own founder in scituate and his name was bill oconnell. A set up a bus and brought it down the street filled with coffee, potato chips, and hotdogs. The selectmen objected. They said, you do not have a license to be a restaurant. He said, i am not a restaurant, i am a van. [laughter] it is a fun interview. We, in the last few months, have created our own youtube channel. I was given access to, we just lost a really dear friend, who had, very much, a similar job to our friend here with the camera in the back. I friend peter was a lot of things. My friend peter was a lot of things. We just lost him at 95 and his doctor shared all of these tapes. One of the really neat interviews is the interview with this guy, bill. How many chips were there again . And sometimes, we took the whole van. The selectmen did not care for it, but bill had a good summer. Here is some more of the light. Here is our admiral. He was hired by a group that assembled a deal on a cocktail now plan cocktail napkin to buy the ship at salvage and get it off the beach. They brought in admiral courtesy had a lot of experience in the pacific get the ss etrusco off the beach at cedar point. Here you see him on the right. Here you see him with one of the folks that hired him. His plan was pretty simple. They were going to dig on either side to create a new channel and try to turn the ship back to 90 degrees if they could do it, putting see anchors out of the highest tide and pulling, with winches, from the deck. This is probably late august, into september. The selectmen had given them a deadline. If they did not figure out what they were going to do, they were going to cut it up right there on the beach. From virginia, spartanburg herald. The stories being covered. This one is from arizona. The story is being covered. This one is from arizona. Harry belafonte wet went number one for 31 weeks. He was the beyonce of 1956. The first disk drive was created by ibm. I teach economics along with government and history. My students are doing a project where they have to create an advertisement for an obsolete product. I was showing them these old forms of storage today. The First Nuclear said that Nuclear Power plant. The First Nuclear power plant. They are trying to drown each other in the olympics. Early november, the ss etrusco makes it 90 degrees. And at the nobel prize goes to the inventor of the transistor. It changes the next 20 years. Next, please. Why did i include this . What is happening in october of 1956 . This is don larsen, the only perfect game in the world series. Here we are. It is getting turned, bit by bit. You said it was november . November it comes off the beach. It goes on st. Patricks day and comes off thanksgiving. I cannot remember exactly what the date was, but when they agreed they would do a salvage, the selectmen backed off. But there was a date by which if they had decided, they were going to cut it up. Football fields our yards. So it is a little more than a football field. Here you are and you seize those cables coming off the deck. They are not at 90 degrees and all here. This is fairly early in the process. This was a hard part of the story to tell, but i like to tell it because it prompts thinking. A pretty small town. About 7800 people yearround, not mourning the summer, as you guys know here. The Economic Impact of this was intense. Mostly because it put a lot of local guys to work. It was a company run by a guy named alan wheeler who would later become the president of the scituate federal savings bank. I cannot quantify it, but the ss etrusco money was multiplied in scituate in almost every neighborhood when i was growing up. People came down to see the ss etrusco and money was available in local banks to get mortgages. It is really a transformative event in that way. Here you see them working, holding barrels. Here is the action on deck. I am out weed whacking. Weed whacking at the lighthouse should be an easy job but it takes longer because people talk to you. A car pulls up and a woman jumps out, is this where the ss etrusco was . I said yes, right appear. She said, my uncle ran one of the bulldozers. And my dad did all of the explosive work. I said, where are you from . She said, cohasset. She never been to the beach. [laughter] here we see admiral curtis supervising work along the sides. You can see they finally got it a little bit better turn. We are looking at the spindle. They did take a risk one day and got under the skin of the admiral when they flew the jolly roger. [laughter] it was not met with too much joy. Here we see them coming off. This story is fascinating. I did not know anything about it. David does not include this in his book. David did not know. At the 50th anniversary of the grounding of the ss etrusco, we had a gentleman whose family was part of the salvage. He told us of this guy named gino brewer. Gino brewer escaped from behind the iron curtain in a rowboat and wrote across the aegean sea in the middle of the night with a friend. He came to the United States. It is an unbelievable cold war story. He finds himself on the beach at cedar point trying to get the ship off the beach. They seem to have been able to have a little fun between tides. The navy sent a blip. The navy sent a blimp. Tell us about the blimp . That is not about the same blimp that is my story. I know, that is why want you to tell it. Take that. I love the story. I grew up on the corner of scituate near the forest. In 1943 it was july 31. It was a thunderstorm. One of them try to make it back to the base. It crashed. It crashed on my uncles farm. They shrouded in secrecy for years. I finally found two or three people that remember it. One fellow is probably about 80 now. Just recently, i connected up with a guy over at the airbase, that museum over there. I asked the guy about her then he had pictures. There was a picture of the piece of land where my house was built around. My dad got the landed two years later when he came back from world war ii. I am looking at this piece of land. Our house was built between two big boulders. Then there is crashed blimp all over the place. Apparently, they actually salvaged it. The National Archives has about avid doesnt pictures on it. About a half dozen pictures of it. It was called the k 11 blimp. Theyre pictures of the guy standing in front of it. That is how they got the aerial picture of the land where i grew up. Bob he could not get back to his own house because the blimp was landing on it. So, here we are. Nearly perpendicular to the beach. The crowds have send a little bit. The admiral goes home. He knows the boats coming off the beach. He knows the boat is coming off the beach. A gentleman who wrote for the globe wrote an article every day. His daughter came to the house for their class reunion. She said, that was my father, do you know about him . The admiral told him it was coming off the beach three days later, and away he went. My dad actually came home the day before and said Procter Gamble got the ss etrusco off the beach. We like to tease that that is the young david ball, the author of our tail. That is just a big goal thats a big old wave banging up against that is just a big old wave banging up against the ss etrusco. Four guys made a deal on a four nap a cocktail napkin and took second mortgages on their homes and did not tail tell their wives. Mr. Brewer sure that story with us. The steel strike played a big role in it. But, they took the milliondollar gamble, sitting around a table in a restaurant, and were able to get the boat off the beach. Did they all stay married . Bob [laughter] yes. Those ships all carried fuel in double bottoms. Bob you will see holes in a minute. They eventually have to pour a lot of cement in it to get something sealed in order to do initial repairs. If we could . So, it floated away only to go somewhere to be salvaged. Bob it went away to have repairs. We are getting close. So there you go, the gamble written on a cocktail napkin paid off. Here is my man ray finnegan who followed this day after day after day. And, misses russo. We have a wonderful image of this at the museum. I will someday when the pulitzer for an image of a wave going over misses russos house at that spot where she is standing. I go up to the tower every day and said, this is my day. Three days after the ss etrusco was three floated refloated castro left mexico bound for cuba. November 25. I love the refloating of a trust go of the ss etrusco. It is like ted williams last game. Every day somebody tells me, i was there. We have an event in august, and the first night of it i was out, i guess four years ago, maybe five now, and i was lighting my share of the candles. I began talking with folks on a bench. One said to me, do you ever talk about the ss etrusco . I said, from time to time. She said, my husband was on it. I said, tell me more. He had been part of the salvage and came home to her in the middle of the day on thanksgiving and said, the boat is going off the beach and im going with it. She was still a little miffed that she had thanksgiving dinner on the table. Her doctor said, i remember going in as a little girl and everything was tortoise was torn to shreds except the cabins quarters. I offer this just to show you in large part how much has changed and how much this time was a time of change. This editorial appears in a virginia newspaper as the salvage operation was coming to a close. One of these papers had an editorial about the ss etrusco routinely. In this case, a dr. Deborah coggins was dismissed for having lunch with a person of a different color. This editorial points out faith was arrested when she sat down in the section of a Junior High School reserved for people of color. Dr. Browning, a county commissioner in jefferson county, virginia if i am being fired for defending dr. Coggins and that is wrong, it is wrong to be an american. This is the cutting edge for a generation that will look at things differently. It is not just the ss etrusco changing a town from a sleepy place to a jumping place, it is the whole country going through a shift. It offers a bigger lesson, or a vehicle for us to look at that. The court cases that follow as the new generation says enough is enough build the suburbs as people leave the cities and get away from it. Bill russell joins the celtics after helping the United States when the goal matter. Larry bird is born shortly after that. And, Nelson Mandela is arrested in south africa. This is a time of enormous change. The Police Department in scituate, chief kane, notes in the town report just wouldnt challenge this was and how much. Just just how much of a challenge this was and how much. There was a letter from a former Police Officer saying, wasnt that a crazy summer . I hope we never see traffic like that again. Signed, officer salvador. A School Committee report. Parents and teachers appear increasingly reluctant to make a child do the things which they believe to be right. In the home, democratic discussions among all family members have too often become free license in which a child tells his parents and the parents appear not only to take it but to like it. The adolescent desires guidance and needs direction. He feels insecure and confused when decisions are left to him. Despite the breakfront he may often assume. Parents and teachers increasingly shark the job of setting a pattern and failed to give essential direction. Why can we not administer to the childs emotional and intellectual needs . There was panic in the streets. I blame it on elvis. [laughter] here is the bottom of the ss etrusco. If we go back one, you can see the damage. Here you see that process realized. It go baz it goes back to see is the scituate. Giovanni belfiore he tells a story in this interview tom did with him, of being on a ship coming out of new york. He elbowed his crewmate and said, that is my ship. That is the ship i was on. He said, you are full of it. You are not on that ship. He said no, that was the name of that little town where they took us in, that has to be mild ship. It says the value goes up to 2 million. Bob that is wrong. They paid more than that. That is an error. The newspapers, then and now, who knew . [laughter] here we have our local selectmen, one of the salvages and our friend still living in georgia. She, if we go to the next one, was able to christen the ss scituate. A shower rechristening in december of 1956. There is a plaque noting the grounding of the ss etrusco along the light. I do like the story as well. It was placed by our Neighborhood Association at the 20th anniversary and then was quickly lost, i believe stolen. Another was placed at the 30th. When we had a storm, i guess it was, the boxing day blizzard, 2010 after christmas. A massive storm. I that. Bob yes, big one. All of a sudden, i got a call from the Police Station saying, we found your plaque. I said, im not missing one. The plaque long thought stolen was between the two jetties. A father and his two sons were out walking and date pulled it out of the mud and turned it in. Were out walking and they pulled it out of the mud and turned it in. Telegram received to the selectmen of scituate. The crew of the ss scituate, next ss etrusco x ss etrusco. Wishing prosperity. The bad news . This underpowered ship, as you noted perfectly, ended up again on the rocks in hong kong where it was eventually scrapped. It should not have been out empty, man. Originally, the ford poplar was known here. That was the end of the ss etrusco in the early 60s in hong kong. It was first in the water in 1942. So, it got about 20 years. Still another story. We will add this in quickly. The spirit, so to speak, that was let loose by this event in town, led to the creation of an institution still in place called ss etrusco associates. Families have taken advantage of the services. If we go to the next slide. This is the rain donated to the wheeler family, a ring from a trust go. We have another one given to david ball that he has in his house. This is where you go if you need materials to recover from any sort of service. It is a remarkable thing for this story to continue now in the 60 years of this generosity and this attitude that the stranger and the person in trouble will be given the best possible attention. It is really a nice thing to be able to say about your hometown. Im getting a little misty. Here, if you remember, going way back we had some boys. That photograph became the model for this painting. I think that is it. All right. We thank you for coming out on a cold night. American history tv on cspan3, every weekend documenting america story. Funding comes from these companies and more. Many as 300 people as they looted and burned the affluent black suburb of greenwood next on history bookshelf from 2002 the year the book was published james hirsch talks about riot and remembrance the tulsa race war and its legacy and a bookstore in tulsa. 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