Fine Arts
This section covers mention of the fires of
1871 in poetry, music, drama, and visual media.
Christianson, Rich. "The Ballad of Peshtigo"
included in "Scorched
Earth: The Great Peshtigo Fire Remembered." Industrial Strength
Woodworking Online. <http://www.iswonline.com/archives/eclectic/peshtigo.shtml>
"Forgotten Fire: The Story of Peshtigo."
Musical production created and directed by Jeff Herbst, artistic director of American Folklore
Theater. Music
composed and arranged by Christopher Dietz and Randal Swiggum. Performed by the Madison Children's Choir at its
spring concert May 10, 1998 at High Point Church in
Madison, Wisconsin.
Song of Liberty (radio program), 1951. Script
from a dramatization on the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, broadcast on
the Don Lee Broadcasting System, Hollywood, California (Archives
of the Wisconsin Historical Society).
Neuken, Larry and Dean Thomas (producers).
"The Great Peshtigo Fire." VHS, 28 min. Green Bay:
UWGB Telecommunications Center, 1971. [Dramatization of the fire
on its 100th birthday.]
