In The Event That...

You'll Never Let Go

by Monica Weymouth

Sat., April 14, 3 p.m., $75, reservations required, Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave., 215-228-8200

It's been 95 years since Rose pushed Jack's frozen ass into the Atlantic, but the movies, excavations and Titanic fascination continue. With "R.M.S. Titanic: Her Victims and Survivors," an annual walking tour of passengers' graves (some of whom perished in the disaster; others who survived, only to succumb to that whole death thing later), Laurel Hill Cemetery double-ups the morbidity factor.

Led by Widener University professor and resident folklorist J. Joseph Edgette, the tour is a who's who of early-20th-century Philadelphia high society. Three members of the infamous Widener clan, the wealthiest family in Philadelphia, were aboard the ship after a rare book hunt. Lily and Olive Potter boarded after a romp in Europe, and William Crothers Dulles, a high-profile attorney, was returning after purchasing horses. Charlotte Drake Cardeza, of the Germantown Montebello Estate, was on her way home from an Egyptian vacation and now resides in a Sphinx-adorned mausoleum.

Following the tour, guests can enjoy a meal that replicates the last served aboard the Titanic. Says Edgette, "What keeps the Titanic alive almost a hundred years later is this lavishness, the wealth and notoriety of the passengers."