Yesterday, I went to the Fox Lake, Illinois, Library, to see a presentation by the Eastland Disaster Historical Society.
They started with this quote:
"Wasn't no one rich or famous on that boat when it went down.
Only dusty men with dusty books know or care who drowned."
This pretty well sums up the story of the Eastland. Even many Chicagoans know little or nothing about the fated vessel called the Eastland.
Three members of the society mad the presentation. Two of them were descendants of one of the survivors, their grandmother. Had she perished that horrific day, almost 100 years ago, they would not have been in the library last night.
Ted Wattles was the other presenter.
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