The Sugar Bushes
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The "Sugar Bushes" were the common name
for the areas of dense hardwood—mostly maple—forest to
the north and west of Peshtigo. This area included the Upper Sugar Bush (Porterfield
area); the Middle Sugar Bush (Harmony); and the Lower Sugar Bush (May
Corner) immediately to the west of Peshtigo.
[Statistics on the heavy loss of life here.]
The image is artist Mel Kishner's interpretation of what it might
have been like for a farm family in the Sugar Bush during the
fire.
