First Person: Pompeii (AD 79) & San Francisco (AD 1906) – Human Voices Wake Us
An episode from 11/19/21, where I read about two disasters separated by nearly two thousand years: the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in the year 79, and the earthquake that destroyed so much of San Francisco in 1906.
A letter from Pliny the younger (read it here) describes Vesuvius and Pompeii, while an article by Jack London (read it here) takes us to San Francisco. I end with a reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Pompeii,” from her 2003 book, Black Series.
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