Walter Lord is best known as author of A Night to Remember (1955), a narrative non-fiction book on the sinking of the Titanic. Lord interviewed more survivors than any other Titanic historian and inspired a generation of Titanic scholars. When the film A Night to Remember was released in 1958, it reminded the world of a tragedy that would never be forgotten and raised the greatest unanswered question about that night: why did the Californian, a ship sitting nearby in the ice, ignore Titanic’s emergency rockets and do nothing to help until the following morning? Many of Titanic’s survivors left Lord artifacts they carried from the ship as well as letters and personal items. Upon is death, Lord bequeathed his collection to the Greenwich Maritime Museum. (post by Cathy Akers-Jordan)