Unremembered by Ken Zurski

Unremembered by Ken Zurski

Peoria Magazines: Over the last six years, Zurski has] proven himself to be a remarkable historian, storyteller and writer.

Marty Wombacher, Meanwhile, Back In Peoria.: Ken has an impressive writing style that is equal parts factual reporting and conversational story-telling. When you mix those two styles and weave them into tales with eccentric and unique people involved in unusual slices of life, it feels like someone is telling them to you around a campfire, even though you're reading the words in a book. That's a real gift and Ken Zurski has it.

Ken Zurski, author of The Wreck of the Columbia and Peoria Stories, provides a fascinating collection of once famous people and events that are now all but forgotten by time. Using a backdrop of schemes and discoveries, adventures and tragedies, Zurski weaves these figures and the events that shaped them into a narrative that reveals history's many coincidences, connections, and correlations.

We tumble over Niagara Falls in a barrel, soar on the first transcontinental machine-powered flight, and founder aboard a burning steamboat. From an adventurous young woman circumnavigating the globe to a self-absorbed eccentric running for President of the United States, Unremembered brings back these lost stories and souls for a new generation to discover.

FEATURING
John Alcock
Nellie Bly
Isambard K. Brunel
Samuel Cunard
Nathaniel Currier
Annie Edson Taylor
Ruth Elder
William Harnden
Father Louis Hennepin
Dorothy Kilgallen
Samuel Langley
Bobby Leach
John Ledyard
Thomas Moran
Catherine O'Leary
William B. Ogden
Fanny Palmer
Sam Patch
Rembrandt Peale
Cal Rodgers
Amos Root
Janet Scudder
George Francis Train
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Arthur Whitten Brown
John Wise
Victoria Woodhull

Ken Zurski is a longtime broadcaster and author of The Wreck of the Columbia. A native of Chicagoland, where he was a radio personality for many years, Ken now works in Peoria and resides in Morton with his wife Connie and two children, Sam and Nora. Peoria Stories is his second book. Connect with Ken online at facebook.com/kenzurskiauthor.

Journal Star: Ken Zurski's new book takes a storyteller's angle to local history.

The result is Peoria Stories: Tales from the Illinois Heartland, which seeks not so much to chronicle facts and figures but breathe life into throwback intersections between big names and the river city.

The likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Carrie Nation appeared in Peoria, just as they do in Peoria Stories. But Zurski, unsatisfied with timeworn acknowledgements of their visits, aims for deeper views. Why did Roosevelt visit Grandview Drive? How did Lincoln's speech change his career? What prevented Nation from swinging her axe?

Over its 208 pages, Peoria Stories answers those questions and tells more tales. Still, amid personalities of renown and impact, the star is Peoria. Zurski, anchor of local radio's Traffic One and author of the 2012 book The Wreck of the Columbia, sketches the city's and region's roles during national movements and events at various points in time.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781937484620
ISBN 10	1937484629
Title	Unremembered
Author	Ken Zurski
Series	Unremembered
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Amika Press
Year published	2018-08-09
Number of pages	252
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.