Bottled Goodbyes with Ric Mixter

Bottled messages have been discovered along shorelines for nearly as long as glass containers have been existed. They bring tidings from ocean voyagers, invitations for pen-pals, tragic pleas for rescue and floating farewells from long lost souls.

Based on Ric Mixter’s new book, Bottled Goodbyes chronicles the most famous messages ever recovered, including three found after the Titanic disaster. One of those messages was allegedly from a White House aide who served two U.S. presidents! Ric's presentation also investigates five messages that floated ashore from the Great Storm of 1913 and shares in-depth information on the barge Plymouth and Lightship 82 notes. Both ships were lost with their entire crews, so the messages recovered made national headlines.

Ric has spent most of his life searching out maritime stories, finding key eyewitnesses to landmark events like the “King of Storms” in 1913, the Armistice Day Storm of 1940 and modern disasters like the Cedarvillle, Bradley, Morrell and Edmund Fitzgerald. In that quest he has dove over 100 wrecks  (including the Fitz) and has brought to light details that surprise his fellow researchers. Don't miss this engaging zoom presentation with Ric Mixter!

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