Friday, January 11, 2013

My great-grandmother's funeral took place in Everson, Pennsylvania, on April 12, 1927. Here's what else happened that week:
* Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death. 
* The Irish Free State came into existence. 
* Chiang Kai-shek gave orders for what became known as the Shanghai Massacre. 
* The Great Mississippi Flood began. This was the largest recorded rainfall in American history. New Orleans received almost 15 inches of rain within 24 hours.

Meanwhile, five little children cried for their mother. History is a strange amalgam, is it not?

4 comments:

Ruth said...

Histroy is alway THE BIG and THE LITTLE.

Maureen said...

And I'm left asking, of all that happened, which event had the greatest effect? I'm reminded of a line I read recently that the problem with history is that the historians get to write it.

Ruth said...

Oh Maureen, I do agree. Perhaps that is why we each actually write our own history whether we know it or not.

Carol Willette Bachofner said...

History is happening now; poets are writing it.