Pardon me for returning to The Devil in the White City so soon, but your devoted blogger is a board game geek and just had to share a Kickstarter campaign in place for a World’s Fair 1893 Board Game. Also… Continue Reading
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Shackleton’s fateful Antarctic expedition in which his ship Endurance became trapped in ice. Our book club read Alfred Lansing’s account of that expedition, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, in 2013, and most of us were thoroughly… Continue Reading
Our last discussion concerned Erik Larson’s non-fiction story of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the parallel story of Dr. H.H. Holmes, purported to be the United States’ first serial killer, titled The Devil in the White City. Two aspects… Continue Reading