A Stricken People; The Victims of the Peshtigo Fire

The Great Peshtigo Fire was a catastrophe on a grand scale, but for its thousands of victims, it was a very personal trauma. In this presentation will look at the fire through the perspective of a few of the families and individuals involved. It will also touch on precautions taken by some before the fire, and how the experience shaped their personal preparedness afterwards.

Karen Vincent Humiston has had a lifelong fascination with family history and the Peshtigo Fire. With more than forty years of experience as a genealogy researcher, Karen spent the past two years intensively researching the fire and the many families and individuals caught up in it. Her book, The Sky Was Brass; The Earth Was Ashes: The Story of the Great Peshtigo Fire, will be released in 2022.

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remember everyone cooked with fire in cookstoves..sparks out the chimneys in the extremely high fire hazard condition