Molly Brown House Talk & Tour

~ Daughter of Adventure ~

May 21, 2025 

6:00pm MT

Date:       May 21, 2025

Event Timeline (MT):

6:00 pm - reception and self-tours start
6:30 pm - Sadie Sanchez AB'98 talk begins
6:00 - 8:00 pm - opportunity to tour the museum

Location: 

The Molly Brown House
1340 Pennsylvania Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

Join us for a reception and opportunity to tour the Molly Brown House and see the exciting and rare Titanic artifacts newly acquired by the museum.
The reception is in the top floor tea room, and will feature 1912 period hors d'oeuvres, cocktail (Bees Knees), wine and non-alcoholic drinks.

RMHUC member and Molly Brown House docent Sadie Sanchez AB'98 will give a brief talk about the connections between Molly Brown and Harvard, prior to the opportunity to tour the collection. A great way to learn more about Denver's own Molly Brown!

For more information, please contact Chris Miller AB’88 - Event Chair

Tickets: $45 Members; $55 Non-member Alumni

Margaret (Molly) Brown

Daughter of Adventure

The Titanic Tragedy - aftermath

Legend claims that Margaret, stepping off the Carpathia onto the safe shore of New York, boldly exclaimed, “Typical Brown luck. I’m unsinkable!” But in reality the name apparently started with none other than Polly Pry (a Denver gossip columnist). 

The Newport Herald reported that Mrs. Brown’s heroic story – which, it smugly noted, it had been the first to publish – had become a “genuine thriller” in newspapers across the country. According to Newport Herald editors, “Town Topics,” 

Polly Pry’s weekly Denver gossip column patterned after Newport’s own mean-spirited society rag of the same name, was “probably miffed because it had been unable to print [Margaret’s] story when it was fresh news,’ and consequently “unfeelingly referred to her as the unsinkable Mrs. Brown.” 

Mrs. Brown’s response was nonchalant. “Did she care?” the Herald asked. “Not a bit. She sent the clipping [back] to her Colorado friends, and the laugh was on the rude [Denver] Town Topics.”