Comments on: Jesse Lee Home, Alaska and the pandemic of 1919

By: More historical resources, Mr Peter Nick of Russian Mission « Grassroots Science

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:44:14 +0000

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By: mpb

mpb — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:43:46 +0000

Please join the author Jacquelin B. Pels for the
presentation of her new book Family After All: Alaska’s
Jesse Lee home, Volume II on Saturday, June 7, at 1 pm at
the Anchorage Museum. The presentation is followed by the
book signing.

Over three-qurters of a century, the Methodist Jesse Lee
Home housed hundreds of children, mostly Alaska native
children, in the Aleutian Islands and then at Seward, on
the Kenai peninsula. In volume I of Family After All,
Raymond L. Hudson detailed the often tumultuous opening
years in the Aleutian village of Unalaska (1889-1925).

The second half of the story, 1925-1965, is told most
often in the voices of the residents themselves,
especially the children from recollections of the
arrival at seward to first-hand accounts of the earthquake
and tsunami that devastated the town and eventually closed
the Home.
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By: mpb

mpb — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:15:17 +0000

@ Pete:

You are welcome (Ang).

That many forget or simply don’t get access to history is one reason I very much encourage school children to conduct history/epidemiology studies. We still have people who were part of the flu pandemic in the 60s whose knowledge might bridge that of the 1919 pandemic and us today.

TB is still with us (see the Moravian Children’s Home history) but no one seems to have the horror of spitting that we once had out here and in cities (St Louis used to have sidewalk bricks with embedded “do not spit” reminders).

Television is one hugely significant event for our region which has yet to be analyzed.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:47:49 +0000

Wow, great stuff! Thanks for the incredible history. This epidemic and the TB that came 20-35 years later were obviously seminal, formative events in village life yet many of us here now are totally ignorant of it. Thanks again.

By: Tagged by Myers to do history! Meet James Madison « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:06:10 +0000

[...] here in the tagging. Let’s tag some diverse blogs and bloggers who write a fair amount. I tag Pam at Grassroots Science, Bug Girl, Miguel at Around the Corner, Ron at Route 66 News, Curious Expeditions, Dorigo at [...]

By: Ed Darrell

Ed Darrell — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:20:36 +0000

You’ve been tagged!

Here: http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/tagged-by-myers-to-do-history-meet-james-madison/

Good luck!

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Well, I seem to be past due on this assignment. While I’m working on my backlog, readers should visit Ed’s site and read the others he tagged.
Pam