The Bitter Story of the Saddest City in the World
The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.
2013 / Paul Zenke & Adam Malecek / TCF, USA

The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.
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Paul Zenke is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Adam Malecek is a marketing coordinator at a design firm in Madison, Wisconsin.
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