Pennsylvania
Books
- The Dam Above Johnstown: The South Fork Club, the Flood of 1889 and the Price of Neglect The South Fork Club, the Flood of 1889, and the Price of Neglect · Liszt Think
On May 31, 1889, twenty million tons of water released from a patched earthen dam obliterated Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in fifty-seven minutes.
- The Reservoir Above Johnstown…nty-two feet high above its foundation. Its crest stretched nine hundred and thirty-one feet from hillside to hillside. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had built it. High above the city, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania built the earthenwork South Fork Dam between 1838 and 1853 as part of a…
- The Club Forms and Lowers the Dam…hat the lowering cost. The crew had one instruction: make the top wide enough for a carriage. The dam had been built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania between 1838 and 1853 as part of a cross-state canal system, the Main Line of Public Works. As railroads superseded canal barge transport,…
- The Club's Members and Their World…he Allegheny Mountains, fourteen miles upstream from Johnstown. The reservoir behind the dam covered roughly 450 acres. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had built the earthenwork South Fork Dam between 1838 and 1853 as part of a cross-state canal system, the Main Line of Public Works. Johnst…
- The Parade Philadelphia, the Liberty Loan Parade, and the Deadliest Week in American History · Liszt Think
On September 28, 1918, two hundred thousand Philadelphians gathered for a Liberty Loan parade as influenza silently spread through the Navy Yard.
- The Shadow in the Ranks…ccupied a position at the intersection of Philadelphia’s scientific and medical establishments: professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis, consultant to the city’s hospitals and hea…
- The Protocol of Normalcy (Mid‑September 1918)…aff at the Navy Yard came increasingly urgent private communications. Lewis’s September 18 letter to Krusen, preserved in the University of Pennsylvania archives, noted that the disease was now spreading with remarkable rapidity and that the mortality among young adults was unexpectedly high…
- The Rules on Wilmer Krusen’s Desk…usen had also received, by registered mail on September 26, the definitive laboratory confirmation from Dr. Paul Lewis at the University of Pennsylvania’s Phipps Institute. Lewis had examined samples from Navy Yard patients. His findings were unequivocal: the disease was influenza, and it wa…