Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing

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CONTENTS Prologue: April 16, 2007 xi One A Community in Michigan 1 Two Andrew P. Kehoe 6 Three Dawn of a Decade 16 Four New Man in Town 20 Five The Bath Consolidated School 25 Six A Growing Storm 39 Seven Electricity 55 Eight A School, a Farm 88 Nine The Valley of the Shadow of Death 115 Ten Requiems 127 Eleven In the Matter of the Inquest as to the Cause of Death of Emery E. Huyck, Deceased 138 Twelve Summer 144 Thirteen Tulips 157 Victims’ Names 177 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 185 Selective Bibliography 199 A voice is heard in Ramah lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are not. —jeremiah 31:15` When lilacs are in bloom I think of the Bath School explosion because that day the children brought bouquets to their teacher —martha horton survivor ...