Slow Burn
Title | Slow Burn PDF eBook |
Author | Renée Jacobs |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0271036818 |
"A pictorial chronicle of the Centralia, Pennsylvania, mine fire disaster in 1962, which led, decades later, to the destruction of the town. Includes interviews and historical background"--Provided by publisher.
Fire Underground
Title | Fire Underground PDF eBook |
Author | David Dekok |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0762758244 |
How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000. By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000—not unusual for a onetime mining town. But as of 2007, Centralia had the unwelcome distinction of being the state's tiniest municipality, with a population of nine. The reason: an underground fire that began in 1962 has decimated the town with smoke and toxic gases, and has since made history. Fire Underground is the completely updated classic account of the fire that has been raging under Centralia for decades. David DeKok tells the story of how the fire actually began and how government officials failed to take effective action. By 1981 the fire was spewing deadly gases into homes. A twelve-year-old boy dropped into a steaming hole as a congressman toured nearby. DeKok describes how the people of Centralia banded together to finally win relocation funds—and he reveals what has happened to the few remaining residents as the fiftieth anniversary of the fire's beginning nears.
The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Title | The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Shroder Schneck |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | Chambersburg (Pa.) |
ISBN |
The borough was the only major northern community burned down by Confederate forces during the war, which led to accusations of war crimes.
The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Title | The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Shroder Schneck |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 54 |
Release | 2020-08-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752425423 |
Reproduction of the original: The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Shroder Schneck
The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ... With Corroborative Statements. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Etc
Title | The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ... With Corroborative Statements. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin S. SCHNECK |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Pennsylvania Burning
Title | Pennsylvania Burning PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 114 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Fire extinction |
ISBN |
Philadelphia Fire
Title | Philadelphia Fire PDF eBook |
Author | John Edgar Wideman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1982148853 |
One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. “Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Time) and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.