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Last
year marked
the centennial
of one of the
nation's worst
disasters, the
1915 sinking
of the
steamship Eastland
in the Chicago
River, with
more passenger
deaths than
the Titanic.
An
astonishing
844 poor
people
perished on
the Eastland—a
ship still
tied to its
dock when it
capsized.
For a century
the cause of
the nearly
forgotten
tragedy had
remained a
mystery, but
the New
York Times
bestseller, Ashes
Under
Water: The SS
Eastland and
the Shipwreck
that Shook
America (Lyons
Press),
offers a
fresh,
sinister
explanation
for the
tragedy: that
management
neglected
needed repairs
to the ship’s
stabilizing
machinery.
Written
by a former Wall
Street Journal
reporter and
editor, Ashes
Under Water
also
illuminates a
dark corner in
the biography
of legal
legend
Clarence
Darrow, who
was center
stage in the
trial in which
the guilty
evaded
justice.
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The Lounge
at Iwan Ries
Tuesday, March
15, 2016,
5:30-8:30pm
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 Michael
McCarthy,
who learned to sail on
Lake Michigan, is the
author of The Sun
Farmer and Ashes
Under Water He
worked as a reporter
and editor for the Wall
Street
Journal for
twenty-two years,
spending
fifteen of those years
in Chicago. He has
degrees from St. Louis
University, DePaul
University and Seattle
Pacific University.
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About
the
Cigar Society of
Chicago
ONE OF
THE OLDEST AND greatest
traditions of the city
clubs of Chicago is the
discussion of
intellectual, social,
legal, artistic,
historical, scientific,
musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in
the company of educated,
bright, and
appropriately
provocative individuals,
all under the beneficent
influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and
spirits. The
Cigar Society of
Chicago
embraces this tradition
and extends it with its
Informal Smokers,
University Series
lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners,
in which cigars, and
from time to time pipes
and cigarettes, appear
as an important
component of our version
of the classical
symposium. To be
included in the Cigar
Society's mailing list,
write to the secretary
at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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