RE: Cocoanut Grove fire

["Larry Lovering" <larry.lovering@cox.net>]

The Boston Globe's retrospective on the Coconut Grove fire reported that if
BC won the game, they would have been at the Coconut Grove that night.  I
don't know if the same went for Holy Cross, I suspect not.

-Larry



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Bill
> O'Neill
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:07 PM
> To: 'A. Joseph Ross'; Boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: RE: Cocoanut Grove fire
>
>
> Joe writes:
>
> > In response to news of the Rhode Island fire, my 91-year-old
> > mother told me her
> > recollections of the Cocoanut Grove fire.
>
> I was once told that the night of that fire there was a BC Holy Cross
> game. The winning team was supposed to go to the Coconut Grove.  Sounded
> like an urban myth but it was a family friend who lost his fiance that
> night. He ran back in to get her, grabbed her by the wrist and pulled
> her to safety, only to look at her to realize he had saved a stranger.
> His fiance perished.  I can only imagine there are scores of stories
> like this relating to Warwick.  This is what the media can do for the
> families, even after the story is no longer on the front page/lead
> story.
>
> Bill O'Neill
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