December 8 – The History Center’s Annual Meeting
Posted by Dustin Horton // November 27, 2011 // Calendar of Events
Please join The History Center for its public annual meeting on Thursday December 8.
THC’s special guest for this event will be David DeKok, author of The Epidemic: A Collision of Power, Privilege, and Public Health (Lyons Press, 2011), who will talk about the Ithaca typhoid epidemic of 1903.
David DeKok is a former reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., and writes books about crises in small American towns. He was born and raised in Holland, Michigan, and graduated from Hope College there with a degree in political science. His first two books, Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986) and Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire (Globe Pequot Press, 2009), explored the history of the underground coal fire that gradually destroyed the small town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, beginning in 1962. He is presently writing The Girl Who Was Killed in the Library about the mysterious murder of Betsy Aardsma, a beautiful young woman from his hometown, in the Penn State University library in 1969. Mr. DeKok lives along the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pa., with his wife, Lisa Brittingham, and daughters Elizabeth and Lydia.
For more information, please contact The History Center on 607 273 8284 or welcome@thehistorycenter.net
