LISBON FALLS – Featured speaker for Lisbon Historical Society’s meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, will be Karen Lemke of Lisbon Falls, associate professor of education at St. Joseph’s College in Standish.

The meeting will be held in rooms 5 and 6 of the MTM Center, 18 School St. Doors will open at 6:30. The public is welcome to the free program.

Lemke did feature writing for several newspapers for a dozen years. She and her husband, William Lemke, received their doctorates from the University of Maine at Orono.

Lemke will discuss “An Interview with a Survivor of the RMS (Royal Mail Steamship) Titanic, April 15, 1922, at 2 a.m. with 705 survivors, 96th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic.”

Survivor Marshall Drew, 8, was traveling back to the United States from England where he, his aunt and uncle were visiting his grandmother in Cornwall.

Drew toured the first class section before taking his place in the second class area.

The Lemkes interviewed Drew at his home in Westerly, R.I., in 1986. The Titanic had just been discovered by Robert Ballard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Mass. Drew died six weeks after the interview. Lemke’s presentation will include slides taken during the interview.

For more information on the society, call Dorothy Smith at 353-8510.