{"product_id":"historic-disasters-of-east-tennessee-9781467141895","title":"Historic Disasters of East Tennessee","description":"For more than 150 years, East Tennesseans have experienced disasters of historic proportions. The 1902 Fraterville Mine explosion took the lives of 216 men and boys. A 1904 head-on passenger train wreck in New Market claimed the lives of 64. In 1906, Jellico was practically destroyed by the explosion of a train car loaded with dynamite. Floodwaters near Rockwood in 1929 took the lives of 7 Boy Scouts and their Scoutmaster. An explosion in 1960 at Kingsport's Eastman plant killed 16 workers and injured 400. In 2016, a fire in the Great Smoky Mountains claimed the lives of 14 while destroying 2,460 buildings. Knoxville author Dewaine Speaks chronicles these and other historic tragedies in East Tennessee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeaks, Dewaine A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dewaine Speaks earned a BA degree with a major in economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he was an outfielder on the Volunteers baseball team. He retired in 2001 following a career in the marketing of industrial equipment, both domestically and internationally. Previously published work by Dewaine Speaks are \"Wild About Mary,\" a short story; Preparing for International Travel, an informative travel guide; Weston Fulton Changed the World, a biography of Tennessee's most prolific inventor; and East Tennessee in World War II, the story of the area's important contributions to the nation's war effort during World War II. He has also written various newspaper articles.","brand":"History Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911303991570,"sku":"9781467141895","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31aae22f-60ec-49f5-8fe4-d43388697267.jpg?v=1738736590","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/historic-disasters-of-east-tennessee-9781467141895","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}