THE PESHTIGO FIRE: THE IGNORED DISASTER FROM THE SAME DAY AS THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE
THE PESHTIGO FIRE – This piece of neglected history may be one of the most Balladeer’s Blog-ish topics in Balladeer’s Blog’s sixteen-year history. On October 8th, 1871 Peshtigo, Wisconsin burned down in a monumental conflagration that killed OVER FIVE TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE AS THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE KILLED! Both fires happened on the same […]
THE AENEID: THIRD PART
FOR THE FIRST PART CLICK HERE. FOR THE SECOND PART CLICK HERE. THREE – Aeneas and his fleet of survivors of fallen Troy arrive at Latium in what is now west central Italy. They are made welcome by King Latinus, who offers his daughter Lavinia to Aeneas as a bride per the oracles foreseeing the […]
