Treasured Memories: Columbian Exposition of 1893

By Carol March McLernon, David Schupbach and James McLernon

In 1893, a worlds fair was held in Chicago to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery of America. To say it was big would be a huge understatement. It was so big it spilled into Lake Michigan, and the Ferris wheel was six stories taller than Chicagos tallest skyscraper. Thousands of fair visitors took home wonderful treasures, including tickets from the four gates, ribbons, flags, coins, stamps, and a certificate to verify the bearer rode the worlds first Ferris wheel.

In her book Treasured Memories, author Carol March McLernon takes you on an exploration of the Columbian Exposition, which marked an explosion is science, mechanics, and industry. It paved the way for womens rights and African-American rights as well as city beautification and sanitation.

Treasured Memories shares the long-lasting reminders of the Columbian Exposition, including the Museum of Science and Industry, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Yerkes telescope, and the Norway Building. Reading this book would make history fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jan 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781480855960

Carol March McLernon

Carol March McLernon has always liked horses--in Western movies, in horse shows, and at Pony Playce in Appleton, Wisconsin. As a child, The Black Stallion was one of her favorite books. The family hobby farm on the outskirts of Lake Geneva was home to several ponies and horses but she left the care and riding to her husband, Robert, and their three children. Her writing career began when she learned that five oxen teams were used to deliver the church bell to a mining town in Wisconsin before it became a state. The bell had traveled up the Mississippi River to Galena, Illinois. She wrote a fictional book, Katie Down the Pike based on that fact. Oxen appeared in her other historical books: Samuele: Man with Many Names, Leadmining Towns of Southwest Wisconsin, String of Hope, and Ice for Sale.

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 1/4/2018

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