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Summer at the Great Lakes

Flood of 1913

Join a park ranger from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and volunteer actors to hear the real-life tales of one of the worst natural disasters the state has ever seen.

Register online, in person, or by phone at 330.643.9020.

Celebrate Oceans of Possibilities Summer Reading theme with a local connection: the Great Lakes!

Topics, speakers, and times are below:

12 pm: A History of Piracy on the Great Lakes, Auditorium. A speaker from the National Museum of the Great Lakes will present a historical examination of piracy. No parrots or peg legs included but a healthy dose of thievery, mutiny, and other unsavory tales.

1 pm: Paranormal Great Lakes, Auditorium. Local author Charles Cassady, Jr. will share fantastic sailors' tales, mysteries, and legends of the five majestic freshwater seas. Presented for the ghost-buster, skeptic, or the just plain curious.

2 pm: The Flood of 1913, Library Park Amphitheater. A park ranger from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and volunteer actors will recount real-life tales of one of the worst natural disasters the state has ever seen.

The Flood of 1913 with the Cuyahoga Valley National Park is part of our all-day Summer at the Great Lakes program. This program will be held outside at the Library Amphitheater. For questions or additional information, you can reach the Business, Government, and Science desk at 330.643.9020 or stdiv@akronlibrary.org.

For more assistance or further reading, check out these resources:

• Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed it Forever by Geoff Williams (Nonfiction)
• A Flood of Memories: One Hundred Years After the Flood: Images from 1913 and Today by the Miami Conservancy District with modern photography by Andy Snow (Nonfiction)
• Sisters of Sweetwater Fury by Kinley Bryan (Historical Fiction)

[Image used is "Flood - North Howard Street," a postcard showing a destroyed home on N. Howard Street in Akron, Ohio from the Flood of 1913. Image was accessed from Summit Memory's General Photography Collection of the Akron Summit County Public Library. To view more images from the Flood of 1913 in Summit Memory, click here.]

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