David Dekok: 3 books
Fire Underground
The Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000. By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000—not unusual for a onetime mining town. But as of 2007, Centralia had the unwelcome...
Epidemic
A Collision of Power, Privilege, and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for
a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town
of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William...
Murder in the Stacks
Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university’s main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police...