Kaleigh and Evan met in 2016 during their sophomore year at Endicott College. They had several mutual friends so they would hang out in the same groups frequently and started to get very close bonding over their goofy senses of humor, love of horror movies, and big appetites. Their first date was at The Cheesecake Factory at the Northshore Mall. They began their relationship officially in July of 2017 and the rest is history!

Kaleigh and Evan got engaged on October 30, 2022, at Brant Point Lighthouse on Nantucket.

Evan, with the help of his family and Kaleigh's, planned the entire thing while he was stationed in South Korea for a year with the Army. He arranged for Kaleigh's family (Chuck, Heidi, Kara, Randy, Meghan, Steve [Erbe], Kayla, Haley, and Anna) to secretly travel to Nantucket without Kaleigh knowing for a big surprise engagement party at Pam and Dan's house.

On the afternoon of the 30th after a delicious brunch with Ryan & Alex at the Nantucket Hotel (to celebrate Alex's birthday), Evan brought Kaleigh over to the beautiful Brant Point lighthouse to "see the sights" while Ryan and Alex "ran errands." And to Kaleigh's surprise, he got down to one knee and proposed!

But that wasn't the only surprise of the day! When they arrived back at Evan's parent's house, an unsuspecting Kaleigh walked out onto the back porch to be totally surprised by the sight of her family there to celebrate for the rest of the day.

Great job Evan. ;)

During the night of May 14, 1934 Olympic, sister-ship to the lost Titanic, was homing in on the lightship's radio beacon. Nearly 75 times larger than the 630-ton lightship, the White Star liner was steaming at about 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) in the center of the western terminus of the trans-Atlantic shipping lanes.[8] By 5.00 am on the morning of May 15, Olympic was in thick fog which necessitated the reduction of its speed to 16 knots, then 12 km (22 km/h; 14 mph).

The lightship's radio signal and fog signals were picked up by Olympic at about 10.55 am and appeared to be off the ship's starboard bow. Captain John Binks ordered Olympic's course to be changed ten degrees to port and her speed to be reduced to ten knots. Her radio operator attempted unsuccessfully to make contact with LV-117 to determine her exact position, but the fog signals could still be heard, apparently at a longer distance off the starboard bow. It appeared that Olympic was well clear of the lightship, but a few minutes later the lookout spotted LV-117 dead ahead. Binks ordered the ship's rudder to be set full to port, the engines to be set full speed astern, and the watertight doors to be closed throughout the vessel. Olympic slowed to only about 3 km (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) but it was too late and she collided with the side of the lightship at 11.06 am.

At 40°37′2″N 69°37′6″W. Although she was not moving fast, her sheer weight (52,000 tons when fully fuelled), and thus her kinetic energy, completely wrecked the smaller vessel.

Olympic's passengers barely noticed the collision, which First Class passenger Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland registered only as a "slight jar". The changed settings of the engines were much more noticeable, sending vibrations throughout the ship as they were put into reverse and brought up to maximum revolutions. Passengers came onto the deck to find out what was going on and were met by the smell of oil and the sight of debris in the sea around Olympic.

For those aboard LV-117, the collision was felt much more directly. "We saw the Olympic loom out of the fog a short distance away," stated C.E. Mosher, LV-117's first mate, in a newspaper interview two months after the accident. "The visibility was only 500 ft (150 m). A crash was inevitable. I sounded the collision alarm. We all donned life preservers. Then we waited." When the collision came, said Mosher, "it was more like a hard push and a terrific shaking, a crunching and grinding. It was not a loud smash as one might expect. The Olympic kept coming through ..."[ John Perry told the press, "At the time of the smash I was in the radio cabin. I barely had time to get on deck and swim for my life." Robert Laurent commented that as "it all happened so quickly, you had no chance to panic. We all had our life preservers and it was a good thing that we did."

(As you can probably guess, this was Evan's contribution to the website LOL)