The Clue in the Old Almanac: Solving an Eastland Mystery

About this episode

The episode revisits Edith Franklin Wyatt's article on the Eastland Disaster, focusing on the Lutheran pastor she interviewed.

Send us Fan Mail This week, we return to Edith Franklin Wyatt’s July 26, 1915 article, Hawthorne, A City of Sorrow: Community Hushed by Death. Wyatt interviewed families and clergy whose lives had been touched by the Eastland Disaster, yet many of those individuals—and Wyatt herself—have been largely forgotten in 21st-century versions of the story. This time, we meet the only Lutheran pastor Wyatt interviewed. She identified him as “the German Lutheran pastor Dr. Miles.” Sounds straightforwar...

People in this episode

Host: Natalie Zett

Topics covered

• Eastland Disaster
• historical interviews
• community impact
• forgotten stories
• Lutheran pastor

Keywords

• Eastland Disaster
• Edith Franklin Wyatt
• historical narrative
• Lutheran pastor
• community history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hawthorne, A City of Sorrow: Community Hushed by Death

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