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CRYSTAL FALLS -- At 7 p.m. EST / 6 p.m. CST on Sept. 12, the Upper Peninsula Notable Book Club will present a Q&A session with Greg Lusk about "The Great Seney Fire: A History of the Walsh Ditch Fire of 1976."
Lusk is an author and a retired fire safety professional who was the assistant fire boss for the many months of the 1976 Seney Fire.
According to The Mining Journal: "All told, the fire spread over 72,500 acres during a period of record drought, requiring an interagency firefighting force of more than 1,200 firefighters from twenty-nine states to achieve containment. It burned until the winter snow extinguished it."
The event will be held over Zoom. For more information, contact Evelyn Gathu in advance by egathu@crystalfallslibrary.org, or by phone at 906-875-3344.
The book club recommends borrowing a copy of the book from your local library or purchase from your local bookseller in advance to get the most out of the event.
"Greg Lusk is a native Yooper who had a front-row seat for the Seney Fire. Specifically, he left his job as a fire specialist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to become the assistant dire boss for the state's suppression of the Seney fire. As such, Lusk would need to call on both his experience as a seasoned veteran of Vietnam as a platoon leader as well as his degree in forestry from Michigan Tech to succeed. An inveterate and meticulous recordkeeper, he unearthed his many boxes of official and unofficial documentation after his retirement to write The Great Seney Fire.
More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, U.P. Book Review, and UPPAA can be found on www.UPNotable.com.