Join Titanic for cruise of a lifetime

EXTRAVAGANT TABLE SETTINGS: This picture (Titanic 2007 service) is from last year’s dinner and not only looks like a person could be on the Titanic but also shows the extravagant table settings. - Submitted photos

With emotions high the travelers board the Titanic. The sights, the sounds, the aromas wafting from the kitchen, and the excitement of sailing the ocean.

Join Foley Station restaurant and John Lamoreau, historian, in La Grande to experience the Titanic as few get to relive the true story of the unsinkable ship sinking on her maiden voyage ... the life and death struggle to enter a lifeboat ... the world’s richest people willingly giving up their seats to third class children ... the band playing on knowing they were to die ... and so much more.

Read letters written by passengers. View artifacts from the Titanic itself. Then dine from the same menus as the rich and famous did on that fateful night.

The Titanic has fascinated people for almost 100 years. While there is only one survivor still living, the memory of the Titanic lives on stronger than ever.

Lamoreau has long studied the ill-fated voyage and has gathered an amazing collection of Titanic artifacts.

“My Titanic collection has expanded significantly since last year,” Lamoreau says, “including newly acquired artifacts that have never been displayed elsewhere. I believe it to be the largest collection in the Northwest. We will again be highlighting new stories about Oregon’s long forgotten connections to the Titanic.”

As an example, do you know the name of the young woman bound for Portland with her fiancé? It is a true Hollywood story as while she survived the ordeal, her fiancé did not.

Heartbroken, she returned to her homeland, but when she died some 68 years later, she was buried in the nightgown she wore on that fateful night in 1912.

Combining the ability to feel the Titanic through stories and artifacts is only heightened by the culinary experience. Foley Station Executive Chef Merlyn Baker offers an authentic Titanic meal, served April 10-13 with special seatings and menus each day.

The Titanic meal will be served from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday, at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 5 p.m. Sunday.

When guests arrive they will randomly select the identity of a real Titanic passenger or crew member. During the night, details about various passengers sailing will be revealed. There will be plenty of surprises.

“Survivors” will get a gift certificate from Foley Station.

Visitors can view the artifacts April 10 beginning at 3 p.m. and April 11-12 from 4 to 6 p.m. On April 13 the viewing will be from 3 to 5 p.m.

Due to the immense popularity of this event, seating for each dinner is limited.

Make seating arrangements at the time of ticket purchase. Call 963-7473 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) to purchase tickets and make reservations.