Word: snowes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a handful of surviving relatives gathered, as they have regularly since 1908, to commemorate the anniversary. Sitting on upended fish boxes in the chill, barnlike steamer shed on Boston's India Wharf, they listened as Historian Edward Rowe Snow recounted the oft-told tale of the Portland's sinking...
...Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1898, many families were returning to Maine after holiday visits to Boston. Despite storm warnings, the skipper decided he could make Portland ahead of the blow. Shortly after dark, with 176 people aboard, he cast off. The Portland disappeared down the channel into a swirl of snow...
Just beyond Thacher Island, the gale struck. All that night, the Portland's paddle wheels thrashed vainly as giant seas battered her superstructure, drove her southward before the raging northeast wind. Elsewhere, 141 ships foundered. In the bitter cold and driving snow, men could not see across a ship's deck, had trouble getting their breath...
...roll call of the Portland's dead for the last time. As each name was called, survivors threw flowers on the ebbing tide. A woman played Rock of Ages on a zither. It was the last meeting. The old were ailing, the young had no memories. Said Historian Snow: "After all, you've got to stop some time, and the 50th anniversary seemed to be a good time to stop...
Students are dusting off their skis and ski talk is increasing like a snowball picking up snow. Private parties of "old-timers" will soon be heading to their old haunts. The first snow brought promises of a busy season for Radcliffe skiers...