When I wrote my original story on the effort to preserve this amazing ship, which took my family across the Atlantic in 1964 – I’m the kid with the glasses in the picture; the other characters are my dad, mom, and brother – Dan McSweeney, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy, described my somewhat negative take as “morose.”
He was right, and I should have had more faith: last week, the group announced – against all odds – that it had raised the money required to buy the ship and save it from the scrapyards.
Here’s the piece I wrote on the news for Popular Mechanics website. The story also contains links to my two earlier articles on the ship – including the morose one..
Congratulations to the conservancy for pulling off what seems very close to a miracle (with tons of hard work, and a lot of finesse, accompanying.)
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
