Surviving Savannah

by Patti Callahan Henry

Once you know it, you can’t un-know it;

The idea that surviving brings everyone to a new and better place is a lie told by people who need the world to make sense.

Survival doesn’t ensure a happy ending, and it isn’t the end of the story.”

there’s a difference between prejudice and obliviousness but sometimes it can have the same result.”

What happened on the night of June 14, 1838, when a boiler exploded at 11:04 p.m. and sank the luxury steamboat that has since been called the Southern Titanic?