It was another great dayin Chicago. Today we took the subway to the Chicago History Museum where Dr. Sarah Marcus gave a lecture on Chicago at the turn of the century. We compared the Chicago fire and the Peshtigo fire, we came up with many reasons why the Chicago fire was more sensational than the Peshtigo fire. The one that came to my mind but was not discussed was that the Pestigo fire was started by lightening a natural element versus the Chicago which was started by a human element.
Peshtigo Fire![WER2002-11[1]](http://history591twenty8.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wer2002-111.jpg?w=183&h=300 "WER2002-11[1]")
Then Heidi Mosian gave a presentation on using historical fiction in the classroom that has resources for elementary age students. I can’t wait to dig through their web site to check them all out. After lunch we completed a hands on reading artifacts activity that has students looking at everyday items that could be purchased in the late 1800’s from a Sears or Montgomery Wards catalogues and then looked at similar items that could be purchased today. It was fun looking at the matching catalogue purchase prices and descriptions. We then went and toured the exhibits upstairs. After the museum Dona, Becky, Lindsey and I went down to Wrigglyfield.
June 9, 2009 at 9:28 pm |
Cool- I didn’t know the Pestigo fire was started by lightening. Ray
June 10, 2009 at 4:30 am |
Hi Ray,
The reason I know that the fire started by lightening is that Peshtigo fire came with in 6 miles of my hometown, Suring WI. That the fire started by lightening was not mentioned in the lecture.
Amy