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What would you do if the wildfire swept through your neighborhood without warning? In October 1908, a wildfire swept through northeast Michigan and consumed 900 homes and two million acres of farms and forest. Despite the valiant initiatives of the farmers, lumbermen, and shopkeepers, only Lake Huron could quench the flames. With no fireplace watch towers, spotting airplane, telephones, or prepared firefighting and only limited telegraph, warnings were too little and too late. Devil in the North Woods effectively depicts the fire's genesis, development, and aftermath. The story's real-life protagonist, 10-year-old Henry Hardies, survived the fireplace but family did not. Counting on Henry's personal recollections and author Walt Shiel's faithful entertainment of energy and place, the e book vividly brings Henry's ordeal to life. Devil in the North Woods contrasts the terror of nature's devastation with a chronicle of family, love, sorrow, and restoration. The storyline leaves the reader buoyed by beliefs in the resilience of the human being spirit and notion in love's potential to germinate amid the ashes of mess up.

Category: Historical