Speaker Series- Mattie Phillips: Survivor of the Pestigo Fire
Diane Nichols will be the evening’s program presenter. The Peshtigo Fire occurring on the same day, October 8, 1871, as the more famous Great Chicago Fire, killed at least five times as many people. The Peshtigo Fire burned 1,200,000 acres, and an estimated 1,500 to 2,500 lives were lost. Mattie Phillips was a survivor of […]

