tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post6209743204806177926..comments2024-03-22T15:15:53.970-04:00Comments on Ellie's Ancestors: Wednesday's Website/The Grosse Isle TragedyElliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03597553254090967849noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-50424150002801898782016-04-21T19:42:42.047-04:002016-04-21T19:42:42.047-04:00Just tragic, they must have felt so powerless... ...Just tragic, they must have felt so powerless... Reminds me of the Yeats poem "for the world's more full of weeping..."Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03597553254090967849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-32191509224566443422016-04-21T10:00:15.477-04:002016-04-21T10:00:15.477-04:00This is so heartbreaking. To think of them fleeing...This is so heartbreaking. To think of them fleeing in hopes of finding a better life, only to die on ships in the isolation in such a hospital is so sad. <br /><br />It was really amazing to see that hospital still standing and to "go inside." I've never done that with Google Maps before so thanks for sharing it. Like you said, I could almost imagine it filled with cots of sick and dying people and the sadness that must have been there. So many sad things in the history of man. Michelle Ganus Taggarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18238452675846882700noreply@blogger.com