Have You Ever Been Seasick? By Bud Biery, Hutchinson, Kansas; Sean McArdle, Tetbury, England; and Tracy Million Simmons, Emporia, Kansas * Seasickness on the Open Sea By Bud Biery In 1977, somewhere between Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Alameda, California, a storm suddenly struck our battle group. The USS Wabash, my home for three years, was in the process of refueling and moving stores to the USS Kittyhawk on our port side and a cruiser on the starboard side. We were … [Read more...] about Have You Ever Been Seasick?
Tetbury England
Seasickness Postcards
Recently, while researching transatlantic ocean liner travel in 1926 from Liverpool to New York City, I discovered a category of postcards that I had never known existed. This occurred while speculating on whether Gladys Gamble Parks (1908-1993), an English woman from Hull, might have been seasick during her ten-day immigration voyage to America. One online search about seasickness led to another. Soon, I discovered the existence of "seasick cards." Later, a postcard … [Read more...] about Seasickness Postcards
