Most Famous Shipwrecks with Ric Mixter

Join Ric Mixter to learn about the Most Famous Shipwrecks of All Time on Wednesday, Aug. 20 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Reynolds Township Library Program Center. In this unique lecture, Ric shares stories that are over four thousand years old, carved into cuneiform tablets found in ancient Iraq and on tomb walls in Egypt. From the most published stories of the biblical flood to Saint Paul’s near disaster off the coast of Malta, Ric separates fact from fiction and shares deepwater finds of Phoenician ships and ancient machines to the legendary Titanic and Lusitania disasters.

In his discovery for the most famous, he looks at the most visited shipwrecks today, including two in Europe that have been raised as well as the memorial to the Arizona, where tens of millions have paid respects to the thousand men who were killed aboard at Pearl Harbor. With a special emphasis on Great Lakes stories, Ric shares tragic stories from the Lady Elgin and Fitzgerald and also his family connection to a tragic North Atlantic shipwreck you’ve never heard of.

You may also like the following events from Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library:

• This Wednesday, 13th August, 10:00 am, Friends of the Library Monthly Meeting in Howard City
• Next Wednesday, 20th August, 01:00 pm, One Book One County Book Discussion in Howard City
• Next Thursday, 21st August, 07:00 pm, Library Board Meeting in Howard City