Three Rivers Rising: The Novel of the Johnstown Flood, (Paperback)

from foggidawn

Celestia Whitcomb is a young woman from a wealthy family who spends summers at the hunting and fishing club in the mountains above Johnstown (it was this club that was responsible for the dam that broke, causing the flood). Celestia falls in love with Peter, a boy from town who works at the club ...

from frood42

Set in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the the late 1880s, Three Rivers Rising follows the stories of several people affected by the Johnstown Flood of 1889, when the South Fork Dam burst, killing more than two thousand people and destroying a number of Pennsylvanian towns. Celestia, the daughter of ...

from foggidawn

Celestia Whitcomb is a young woman from a wealthy family who spends summers at the hunting and fishing club in the mountains above Johnstown (it was this club that was responsible for the dam that broke, causing the flood). Celestia falls in love with Peter, a boy from town who works at the club ...

from lilibrarian

A dam has created a manmade river used by rich folk for fishing and vacations. Fed by three rivers, and unmaintained, a rainy stretch causes the river to overflow its banks, sending the entire lake down on the people living below. Based on a real occurrence, fictionalized characters bring it to l...

from rebecca191

It is the summer of 1888 when Celestia Whitcomb first meets Peter, who works at the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in Pennsylvania. Celestia, her older sister Estrella, and their parents are spending their summer on vacation at the club along with many other wealthy members of society. Celes...