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Podcast: Disaster Podcast
Episode: Telling the Stories of Historical Disasters with Beth Livingston
Description: Author Beth Livingston
Author Beth Livingston joins the team in this episode to share her accounts of two past disasters here in the United States. First she recounts the personal stories of resilience in The Dayton Flood of 1913. Then she tells the stories of the survivors of The Charleston Earthquake of 1886.
Both of these disasters took place long before our 24-hour video media coverage. Yet the personal accounts were recorded by local historians and news sources for us to learn from. Beth uses her ability to breathe life into these accounts and creates a fictional story around...