The coat that proved unsinkable

TITANIC ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE. Photo provided

Cottage Grove, being a small town out in the sticks, doesn’t usually come to mind when you think of the drama and tragedy associated with the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage.
At the time of the 1912 disaster, Cottage Grove could boast of 1850 inhabitants, just 300 more than the number of lives lost on the ocean liner, The Titanic. One of the 710 who…