We haven't delve
d into history for a while, but this week a great opportunity to do so cropped up. Ben Welter, a work friend of the scrapblog editor who tends
a wonderful historical blog built around old Star Tribune stories, found an 117-year-old article about the July 14, 1890 Sea Wing disaster on Lake Pepin. About 130 people died when a powerful tornadic storm sank the excursion boat, above.
Some of you cousins may remember Grandma Maria Au
gustine Sprick, at left above, talking about that shrieking 1890 "cyclone," which created her first memory -- of hiding terrified in her mother's long skirts. She was about 5 years old then. (Her mother, our great-grandmother, Anna Ahlers Augustine, is pictured at right.) The Sea Wing story Ben found is written in an old-fashioned dramatic style that lacks what we modern journalists would call a "nut graf" but makes for a great read. Check it out
here.
To make the list of dead larger and easier to read, click on it. You can read more about the Sea Wing and other cool historical things our forebears might have encountered at the
Goodhue County Historical Society website.
We haven't delve
d into history for a while, but this week a great opportunity to do so cropped up. Ben Welter, a work friend of the scrapblog editor who tends a wonderful historical blog built around old Star Tribune stories, found an 117-year-old article about the July 14, 1890 Sea Wing disaster on Lake Pepin. About 130 people died when a powerful tornadic storm sank the excursion boat, above.
Some of you cousins may remember Grandma Maria Au
gustine Sprick, at left above, talking about that shrieking 1890 "cyclone," which created her first memory -- of hiding terrified in her mother's long skirts. She was about 5 years old then. (Her mother, our great-grandmother, Anna Ahlers Augustine, is pictured at right.) The Sea Wing story Ben found is written in an old-fashioned dramatic style that lacks what we modern journalists would call a "nut graf" but makes for a great read. Check it out here.
To make the list of dead larger and easier to read, click on it. You can read more about the Sea Wing and other cool historical things our forebears might have encountered at the Goodhue County Historical Society website.
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