Mayday: History of a Village Holocaust

By Grant Parker

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960495800
• ISBN13: 9780960495801
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Liberty Pr
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very interesting story on part of my heritage.

While I am only in my thirties I can remember my family driving thru Bath and my folks describing the terrible event that transpired years previously. How what would have been 3 of my dad's cousins were killed and 1 injured. This story somehow stirs sad and nostalgic feelings within me. This book really makes such an unbelievable event seem very real, and something in my life will be missing forever because of Andrew Kehoe

Worst bombing of a public building until Oklahoma City

Two days before Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic the bombing of a school took place in Bath, Michigan. On May 18, 1927, a deranged killer by the name of Andrew Kehoe attempted to kill as many children and adults by dynamite explosives planted in the Bath schoolhouse. His success was thwarted when only half of the dynamite exploded. The events leading up to the "Bath School Disaster" are well documented by the author Grant Parker. The story of mid-America in the 1920's is chronicled in a accurate and informative way by the author, as he presents a way of life that was disrupted for many families for a lifetime. I have a special interest in this book because both my mother and my uncle were in in the other half of the school that did not blow up on that Mayday. For more than seventy years the survivors of the disaster have met in the Spring of each year to continue their survival bonding with each other.