What's next: Talk set on disaster
- Publication
- Wilmette Life, 21 Feb 2008, p. 5
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- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Notes
- The Wilmette Historical Museum will host a presentation on the 1915 Eastland Disaster and its local connections Tuesday at the museum. Storyteller Megan Wells will talk about the events surrounding the loss of 844 lives when the cruise ship capsized in the Chicago River. It was later refurbished as a naval training vessel named the U.S.S. Wilmette.
- Date of Publication
- 21 Feb 2008
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Wilmette Historical Museum
- Local identifier
- Wilmette.News.293716
- Language of Item
- English
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- Wilmette Public LibraryEmail:refdesk@wilmettelibrary.info
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