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Titanic Survival Story- Emily B. Ryerson’s and Mine
by Sally Matheny This is really a comparison of two survival stories. One is about Emily Borie Ryerson, a survivor of the infamous Titanic ship. The other is about me, Sally Matheny, a 2012 survivor of the Titanic Camp at the S.C. State Museum. At an overnight Titanic Camp in Columbia, S.C., before entering the Titanic exhibit, each person was given a “boarding pass.” On each pass was information about an actual passenger aboard the steamship Titanic in the year 1912. We assumed their identities as we traveled through the exhibit. At the end of the event, museum participants have gathered information to discover the outcome of their Titanic passenger. Boarding passes…