A native of Chicago, Arnie Bernstein is the author of The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections and Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies. He is the winner of a Puffin Foundation grant and Midwest Regional History Publishing honors.

One can't read this book without being deeply moved by the pain and horror suffered by the children and their parents, or the almost superhuman effort by the community to rescue entombed children. The author has done a remarkable job of letting the people of Bath tell of their tragedy. It gives the book an immediacy and a direct emotional connection with Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech and all the recent and horrible school shootings. The book also touchingly relates the lengths the town went to memorialize those lost in the senseless mass murder. ⁠

• Introduction to the New Edition xiPrologue: April 16, 2007 xviiOne: A Community in Michigan 1Two: Andrew P. Kehoe 6Three: Dawn of a Decade 16Four: New Man in Town 20Five: The Bath Consolidated School 25Six: A Growing Storm 40Seven: Electricity 57Eight: A School, a Farm 96Nine: The Valley of the Shadow of Death 123Ten: Requiems 136Eleven: In the Matter of the Inquest as to the Cause of Death of Emery E. Huyck, Deceased 147Twelve: Summer 153Thirteen: Tulips 167Victims’ Names 189Acknowledgments 193Notes 197Selective Bibliography 213

A native of Chicago, Arnie Bernstein is the author of The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections and Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies. He is the winner of a Puffin Foundation grant and Midwest Regional History Publishing honors.

One can't read this book without being deeply moved by the pain and horror suffered by the children and their parents, or the almost superhuman effort by the community to rescue entombed children. The author has done a remarkable job of letting the people of Bath tell of their tragedy. It gives the book an immediacy and a direct emotional connection with Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech and all the recent and horrible school shootings. The book also touchingly relates the lengths the town went to memorialize those lost in the senseless mass murder. ⁠

• Introduction to the New Edition xiPrologue: April 16, 2007 xviiOne: A Community in Michigan 1Two: Andrew P. Kehoe 6Three: Dawn of a Decade 16Four: New Man in Town 20Five: The Bath Consolidated School 25Six: A Growing Storm 40Seven: Electricity 57Eight: A School, a Farm 96Nine: The Valley of the Shadow of Death 123Ten: Requiems 136Eleven: In the Matter of the Inquest as to the Cause of Death of Emery E. Huyck, Deceased 147Twelve: Summer 153Thirteen: Tulips 167Victims’ Names 189Acknowledgments 193Notes 197Selective Bibliography 213

A native of Chicago, Arnie Bernstein is the author of The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections and Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies. He is the winner of a Puffin Foundation grant and Midwest Regional History Publishing honors.

One can't read this book without being deeply moved by the pain and horror suffered by the children and their parents, or the almost superhuman effort by the community to rescue entombed children. The author has done a remarkable job of letting the people of Bath tell of their tragedy. It gives the book an immediacy and a direct emotional connection with Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech and all the recent and horrible school shootings. The book also touchingly relates the lengths the town went to memorialize those lost in the senseless mass murder. ⁠

• Introduction to the New Edition xiPrologue: April 16, 2007 xviiOne: A Community in Michigan 1Two: Andrew P. Kehoe 6Three: Dawn of a Decade 16Four: New Man in Town 20Five: The Bath Consolidated School 25Six: A Growing Storm 40Seven: Electricity 57Eight: A School, a Farm 96Nine: The Valley of the Shadow of Death 123Ten: Requiems 136Eleven: In the Matter of the Inquest as to the Cause of Death of Emery E. Huyck, Deceased 147Twelve: Summer 153Thirteen: Tulips 167Victims’ Names 189Acknowledgments 193Notes 197Selective Bibliography 213