Author: John Smolens
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation, killed and maimed dozens of children, as well as teachers, administrators, and village residents, including Kehoe’s wife, Nellie. A respected member of the community, Kehoe himself died when he ignited his truck, which he had loaded with crates of explosives and scrap metal. Decades later, one survivor, Beatrice Marie Turcott, recalls the spring of 1927 and how this haunting experience leads her to the conviction that one does not survive the present without reconciling hard truths about the past. In its portrayal of several Bath school children, Day of Days examines how such traumatic events scar one’s life long after the dead are laid to rest and physical wounds heal, and how an anguished but resilient American village copes with the bombing, which at the time seemed incomprehensible, and yet now may be considered a harbinger of the future.
Day of Days
Author: John Smolens
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation, killed and maimed dozens of children, as well as teachers, administrators, and village residents, including Kehoe’s wife, Nellie. A respected member of the community, Kehoe himself died when he ignited his truck, which he had loaded with crates of explosives and scrap metal. Decades later, one survivor, Beatrice Marie Turcott, recalls the spring of 1927 and how this haunting experience leads her to the conviction that one does not survive the present without reconciling hard truths about the past. In its portrayal of several Bath school children, Day of Days examines how such traumatic events scar one’s life long after the dead are laid to rest and physical wounds heal, and how an anguished but resilient American village copes with the bombing, which at the time seemed incomprehensible, and yet now may be considered a harbinger of the future.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation, killed and maimed dozens of children, as well as teachers, administrators, and village residents, including Kehoe’s wife, Nellie. A respected member of the community, Kehoe himself died when he ignited his truck, which he had loaded with crates of explosives and scrap metal. Decades later, one survivor, Beatrice Marie Turcott, recalls the spring of 1927 and how this haunting experience leads her to the conviction that one does not survive the present without reconciling hard truths about the past. In its portrayal of several Bath school children, Day of Days examines how such traumatic events scar one’s life long after the dead are laid to rest and physical wounds heal, and how an anguished but resilient American village copes with the bombing, which at the time seemed incomprehensible, and yet now may be considered a harbinger of the future.
The Day of days, conducted by C. Bullock
Author: Charles Bullock
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Statutory Instruments
Author: Great Britain
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
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The Wicca Book of Days
Author: Gerina Dunwich
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806516851
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806516851
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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"The Day of Days" Annual
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Day of Days Annual
Author: Charles Bullock
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Category : Christian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Category : Christian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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PHS Manual
Author: United States. Public Health Service
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Ecclesiastical Calendar
Author: Samuel Butcher
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Category : Church calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Church calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Pantologia
Author: John Mason Good
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Hazell's Annual
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Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Languages : en
Pages : 714
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