Posted in On This Day, tagged diamond shoals, maurice r thurlow, outer banks, us coast guard on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1927: The schooner Maurice R. Thurlow runs aground during a storm off the Outer Banks. It signals for help, and its crew of nine is taken ashore in a Coast Guard surfboat. Few ships stranded on Diamond Shoals are ever refloated, but after the storm the Coast Guard can find no [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged anne anderson, bailey nc, breath: life in the rhythm of an iron lung, charlotte life saving station, charlotte nc, country doctor museum, east carolina university, iron lung, lake ontario, martha mason, mecklenburg hotel, polio, us coast guard on September 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Iron lung — what a name. The recent reissue of “Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung” by Martha Mason made me wonder about other surviving iron lungs. This one sure has a curious provenance. Even at the height of the polio epidemic, why would a “Charlotte Lifesaving Crew” need an iron lung? [...]
