TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacGregor,Scott
AU  - Dumm,Gary
AU  - Buhle,Paul
TI  - FIRE ON THE WATER
SN  - 9781419741166
U1  - 741.5973 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Broadway, New York
PB  - ABRAMS The Art of Books
KW  - Construction workers
KW  - Accidents
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Cleveland
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Underground construction
KW  - Structural failures
N1  - Fire on the water inspired by the true-life tragedy
N2  - A novel based on a true tale of heroism and invention in the tunnels beneath Lake Erie in 1916.This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants tunneling beneath Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk countless lives for profit. As historical fiction, Fire on the Water sheds light not only on one of America's earliest man-made ecological disasters but also on racism and the economic disparity between classes in the Midwest at the turn of the century
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