CANCELLED - The Legacy of TITANIC with Author Stephen Spignesi

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2025 is the 113th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic!

 Did you know?

  • Titanic carried enough food and beverages to feed 2,200 people three times a day.
     Her “cupboard” included 40 tons of potatoes, 38 tons of meat, 20,000 bottles of beer, 40,000 eggs, and tons more of anything a passenger could possibly desire.
  • Third Class passengers on Titanic enjoyed accommodations comparable to second class on other ships.
  • Titanic’s maiden voyage was meant to be Captain Smith’s final voyage as a steamship captain. He planned on retiring upon his return to England at the conclusion of Titanic’s first transatlantic voyage.
  • Titanic’s fourth funnel was only used to vent cooking smoke form the kitchen.
  • If the walls of Titanic’s watertight compartments had gone all the way up to A deck instead of stopping at E, she probably wouldn’t have sunk, even with her first five compartments breached.

These Fascinating facts and many more are presented in a fast-paced, entertaining, and educational program, complete with an amazing slideshow that has been praised by 
audiences!

About the Author

STEPHEN SPIGNESI is a writer, editor, lecturer, and author of more than 60 books. 
 He is also a retired Practitioner-in-Residence from the University of New Haven where he taught composition and literature for ten years, including courses based on his books, and where he was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Award. 

He writes extensively about popular culture and is considered an authority on Stephen King, the Beatles, Elton John, Robin Williams, Woody Allen, The Sopranos, The Andy Griffith Show, ER, and other pop culture subjects and TV shows.
 His other areas of interest and expertise include American history, the US presidents and Founding Founders, the Titanic, true crime, and the paranormal. 

Spignesi was christened “the world’s leading authority on Stephen King” by Entertainment Weekly magazine and taught the courses, “The New Gothic Horror of Stephen King” and “The Legacy of the Titanic” at the University of New Haven. He appears in the A&E Biography of Stephen King and the ITV documentary Autopsy: Robin Williams. His debut novel, Dialogues(Random House), was hailed as a “reinvention of the psychological thriller.” 

His short stories, introductions, and essays appear in many anthologies, including Rise of the Dead: An Earth-Shattering Anthology of Zombie Terror (2014), A Time For Violence: Stories with an Edge (2019), Dead-End Jobs: A Hitman Anthology (2021), and About That Snowy Evening...Stories Inspired by Classic Poems, from Emily Dickinson to Walt Whitman & More.

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