{"id":7088,"date":"2018-07-15T20:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2018-07-15T20:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T03:16:38","slug":"memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2018\/07\/memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went up to Swampscott today to see the memorial at the train station for the 1956 Swampscott train wreck.<\/a> The memorial reads:<\/p>\n

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE
\nSWAMPSCOTT TRAIN WRECK
\nFEBRUARY 28, 1956
\nWALTER D. ALLEN     WALTER B. LEE
\nRUTH F. BEAN      PAULINE PAVLO
\nFRANCIS E. BOETTNER    GEORGE S. SILLARS
\nALBERTA L. HALEY     DONALD K. TAYLOR, JR.
\nRAYMOND F. JONES     ERNEST A. TOURTELOTTE
\nPENELOPE KOTSOVILLIS    GARDNER S. TRASK, SR.
\nGEORGE V. WARREN, JR.
\nDEDICATED NOVEMBER, 2005<\/p>\n

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The memorial is relatively small, and sits at the bottom of the wheelchair access ramp that leads from the parking lot up to the train platform. The actual wreck took place about a half mile farther up toward Salem, along an inaccessible stretch of track.<\/p>\n

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Our grandfather’s name is the first one on the list: Walter D. Allen. He died before my mother had children, so neither my sisters nor I knew him. Even so, I found it affecting to see his name there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went up to Swampscott today to see the memorial at the train station for the 1956 Swampscott train wreck. The memorial reads: IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE SWAMPSCOTT TRAIN WRECK FEBRUARY 28, 1956 WALTER D. ALLEN     WALTER B. LEE RUTH F. BEAN      PAULINE PAVLO FRANCIS E. BOETTNER    GEORGE … Continue reading “Memorial”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}