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Meet the Author of Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado Monday, March 7,  at 6PM. Register online or call 217-342-2464 ext.1. Meet the Author Angela Mason.

On an ordinary spring day in 1925, folks in the Midwest were going about business as usual: attending school, preparing the fields, mining coal, and tending their stores. Little did they know that between 1 and 4:30 p. m. on March 18, their lives would be changed forever in an event that defined the weather in the central U. S. From the hills of the southeastern Ozarks to the plains of the Hoosier heartland and across the developing communities of southern Illinois, the Tri-State Tornado destroyed cities, devoured whole farms, and set the record for the most deaths, injuries, and monetary damage, a record which remains standing to this day.

This is the story as told directly by nearly four dozen survivors and eyewitnesses, in the most comprehensive account of the Tri-State Tornado ever to be compiled. Many of the survivors were only children when that killer storm swept down from the sky and carved a path through the lives of thousands of individuals linked by this singular eve nt. Author Angela Mason will give a presentation on the tornado and take questions.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase ($24.95) Registration Required.