The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic.
On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail.
The Science Center's Historic Exhibits Coordinator Patty Rogers became the first to share.
"There were always stories in our family about the Titanic and a great aunt that survived the sinking but lost her husband," Rogers said in a news release. "Now that the artifact exhibition is coming to the Science Center, the entire family is talking again about our relative and looking for more documents about her."
Other local connections include Henry Clay Frick. The Western Pennsylvania industrialist canceled tickets aboard the Titanic just before it set sail for the maiden voyage that ended in its tragic sinking in April 1912.
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