03399nam 2200589 450 991079720730332120170822132414.01-4930-1321-1(CKB)3710000000443995(EBL)2085835(SSID)ssj0001551400(PQKBManifestationID)16169073(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001551400(PQKBWorkID)14812237(PQKB)10719640(MiAaPQ)EBC2085835(EXLCZ)99371000000044399520150724h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPennsylvania disasters true stories of tragedy and survival /Karen Ivory2nd ed.Guilford, Connecticut :Globe Pequot,2015.©20151 online resource (255 p.)Disasters SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4930-1320-3 Includes bibliographical references.Introduction; CHAPTER 1; The Yellow Fever Epidemic (1793); CHAPTER 2; The Great Pittsburgh Fire (1845); CHAPTER 3; The Camp Hill and Shohola Collisions (1856, 1864); CHAPTER 4; The Johnstown Flood (1889); CHAPTER 5; Coal Mine Calamities (1904, 1907, 1908); CHAPTER 6; Harrisburg Rail Yard Explosion (1905); CHAPTER 7; The Boyertown Opera House Fire (1908); CHAPTER 8; Eddystone and Oakdale Explosions (1917, 1918); CHAPTER 9; The Chester Bridge Collapse (1921); CHAPTER 10; The Crash of the Congressional Limited (1943); CHAPTER 11; The Donora Smog Crisis (1948); CHAPTER 12The Wreck of the Phillies Special (1962)CHAPTER 13; Underground Centralia Fires (Since 1962); CHAPTER 14; Hurricane Agnes (1972); CHAPTER 15; Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak (1976); CHAPTER 16; Three Mile Island (1979); CHAPTER 17; The Deadly MOVE Confrontation (1985); CHAPTER 18; Tornado Outbreak (1985); CHAPTER 19; The Schoolyard Crash That Killed a Senator (1991); CHAPTER 20; The Crash of USAir Flight 427 (1994); CHAPTER 21; First the Snow, Then the Floods (1996); CHAPTER 22; The Crash of United Flight 93 (2001); CHAPTER 23; Quecreek Mine Rescue (2002); Bibliography; About the Author<span><span>True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection. </span><span>From the Johnstown floods of 1889 to the heroic actions on United Flight 193 on 9/11, Pennsylvania has been home to some of the nation's most dramatic moments. </span><span>Each story reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism of those who helped others, often risking their own lives in rescue efforts.</span></span>Disasters series.DisastersPennsylvaniaNatural disastersPennsylvaniaAccidentsPennsylvaniaHistoryPennsylvaniaHistory, LocalDisastersNatural disastersAccidentsHistory.974.8Ivory Karen1504074MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797207303321Pennsylvania disasters3732864UNINA03281nam 2200601 a 450 991095750780332120230801231940.097866135829289781280487699128048769097815723389061572338903(CKB)3170000000046056(EBL)894681(OCoLC)787843689(SSID)ssj0000631783(PQKBManifestationID)11374043(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631783(PQKBWorkID)10600053(PQKB)11004267(MiAaPQ)EBC894681(MdBmJHUP)muse15966(Au-PeEL)EBL894681(CaPaEBR)ebr10554595(CaONFJC)MIL358292(Perlego)4876300(EXLCZ)99317000000004605620111025d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgee at 100 centennial essays on the works of James Agee /edited by Michael A. Lofaro1st ed.Knoxville University of Tennessee Pressc20121 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781572338531 1572338539 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A James Agee Chronology; Why Agee Matters - Dwight Garner; Agee on Books - Paul Ashdown; James Agee and the Culture of Repudiation - Jeffrey J. Folks; Racial Violence, Receding Bodies: James Agee's Anatomy of Guilt - James A. Crank; A Continuous Center: Centripetal and Centrifugal Tendencies in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Andrew Crooke; A Blind Work of Nature: The Ethics of Representing Beauty in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Jesse Graves; James Agee's A Death in the Family: Personal Identity and Conflict in an Emerging Appalachia - Michael A. LofaroMaximum Simple: The Restored Text of A Death in the Family - Philip StogdonWriting The African Queen: Variations on a Classic Film - Jeffrey Couchman; The Makers of In the Street and The Quiet One - John Wranovics; James Agee's Experimentally Traditional Mr. Lincoln - Jeffrey Couchman; Agee and the Filipino Epic Genghis Khan: A Personal Journey - John Wranovics; Seeing Agee in Lincoln: A Short Story - David Madden; Contributors; IndexDrawn mainly from the centennial anniversary symposium on James Agee held at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2009, the essays of Agee at 100 are as diverse in topic and purpose as is Agee's work itself. Often devalued during his life by those who thought his breadth a hindrance to greatness, Agee's achievements as a poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, critic, documentarian, and screenwriter are now more fully recognized. With its use of previously unknown and recently recovered materials as well as established works, this groundbreaking new collection is a t818/.5209Lofaro Michael A.1948-803406MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957507803321Agee at 1004369194UNINA