Parks Stephenson speaks to the folks attending the Titanic Commemorative Dinner at Trepassey near Cape Race. Later that night he would join all the participants to hear Titanic’s wireless calls once again - a century later ….perhaps to the second…..of when events happened in 1912. On April 15, 2012 a 2-hour television documentary featuring Parks made its world premiere. Parks came to Cape Race for the Titanic Centennial and provided us with this photo of the Marconi Station that received Titanic’s distress message. The Myrick Centre at Cape Race stands on the same site and shares the same construction as the original Marconi station shown in this photo.
The Receiving Titanic Commemorative Program on April 14/15 included a wonderful performance by The Man of a Thousand Songs, Ron Hynes. Ron has family ties to Long Beach and other communities on the Irish Loop - the route to Cape Race.
A moving remembrance of Titanic’s last hours was shared by over 1000 people at sea over Titanic’s final resting place and another two hundred near Cape Race. The morse code signals of a century earlier were echoed from the cruise ship Azamara as messages were exchanged between the Titanic site and Cape Race prior to the messages being relayed on to the Heart’s Content Cable Station - just as messages were relayed a century earlier. Media reports from around the world have been talking about the movng commemorations that took place as the centennial of Titanic’s epic encounter with the iceberg passed. Photos are coming soon to the facebook site!
The commemorations at Cape Race touched the world as we remembered the loss of Titanic.
