John A. Pulos
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I tried to post this twice last year, but was having trouble with my message board ID and finally gave up... so,
Three days before Titanic V (April 14, 2002)at a time that I am never in my restaurant, I was there with my daughter. I had picked her up from school early and we were having lunch. There were two female state troopers sitting in one of our booths. The restaurant was decorated for Titanic V. Over the booth that the troopers were in was framed New York Times from April, 1912. It has a listing of the surviving passengers. The trooper called me over (she was passing through the area and was not stationed in our area) and asked me about all the Titanic decorations. I briefly explained the dinner to her. She then pointed to the survivors and said, "that was my grandmother." Trooper Sandy King was pointing to Mrs. Daniel Marvin. I am never in the restaurant at the time I was there that day, AND Trooper King could have sat anywhere else - and not seen that newspaper - it was the only one like it in the restaurant. Mrs. Marvin became the subject of Titanic VI. Sandy put me in touch with her brother, Stuart de Camp who continues to live in the Adirondacks where the re-married Mrs. Marvin spent her later adult life. Stuart told me that she was very private about the Titanic incident and refused to talk about it. He showed me many invitations she had to attend survivor gatherings - she always refused. He did finally get her to open up to him - when they were together. He was quite young at the time, between 8 and 10 - but remembers it vividly. He told me that shortly before she died, she asked him to take her out on the Moose River in a family row boat. She had two films with her. When she told him to stop - she told him a story about Titanic and then told him that one of the films was of her and Daniel getting married (theirs was the first filmed wedding - but the movie was made after they were actually married) AND THE OTHER WAS OF TITANIC - taken by her husband. After she told him - Stuart says that she tossed the two films into the river. Stuart and Betsy joined us for Titanic VI.
Three days before Titanic V (April 14, 2002)at a time that I am never in my restaurant, I was there with my daughter. I had picked her up from school early and we were having lunch. There were two female state troopers sitting in one of our booths. The restaurant was decorated for Titanic V. Over the booth that the troopers were in was framed New York Times from April, 1912. It has a listing of the surviving passengers. The trooper called me over (she was passing through the area and was not stationed in our area) and asked me about all the Titanic decorations. I briefly explained the dinner to her. She then pointed to the survivors and said, "that was my grandmother." Trooper Sandy King was pointing to Mrs. Daniel Marvin. I am never in the restaurant at the time I was there that day, AND Trooper King could have sat anywhere else - and not seen that newspaper - it was the only one like it in the restaurant. Mrs. Marvin became the subject of Titanic VI. Sandy put me in touch with her brother, Stuart de Camp who continues to live in the Adirondacks where the re-married Mrs. Marvin spent her later adult life. Stuart told me that she was very private about the Titanic incident and refused to talk about it. He showed me many invitations she had to attend survivor gatherings - she always refused. He did finally get her to open up to him - when they were together. He was quite young at the time, between 8 and 10 - but remembers it vividly. He told me that shortly before she died, she asked him to take her out on the Moose River in a family row boat. She had two films with her. When she told him to stop - she told him a story about Titanic and then told him that one of the films was of her and Daniel getting married (theirs was the first filmed wedding - but the movie was made after they were actually married) AND THE OTHER WAS OF TITANIC - taken by her husband. After she told him - Stuart says that she tossed the two films into the river. Stuart and Betsy joined us for Titanic VI.
