The book starts with a chronological account of the three mile island accident. Then the book has a very intresting personal account of the events of three mile island as told by the people of the area. There are 36 differant personal accounts. They tell the story of how the person was informed of the accident, how the person reacted, and differant odd things that nuclear radiation apparently does to the enviornment.

A magnificent work detailing part of the collection of quilts in the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Information was gathered from around the State of Pennsylvania to compile this work. The text is well done, the reproductions are excellent and the references are detailed. All quilt lovers and Pennsylvania folk art history buffs should read this book

OK pretty close to it--I'm his sister so I cant really get away with that, but I ought to know--he can be dry and a bit
windy at times, but he's spirited like a right jolly old elf with
a fine mastery of American Civil War history. It didnt hurt
growing up with a brother like Chippie (we nick named him) to teach you to appreciate the morals and structures that
our nation was based upon as well as to develop your sense of curiousity about war and to appreciate the men who gave their lives for this nation. All of his books are great! and Chip,if you're checking this out, I didnt REALLY intentionally mean to embarrass you! :) love, Melanie

I first found this book at my library, and was amazed at how many locations it covers! I was born in western PA, and grew up in central PA, but there were some intruiging places in this guide that I'd never heard of before. If you are a history buff and have a nice, lazy weekend to spend following the "history trail" as laid in this book - do it! What a nice way to fall in love with PA all over again. It'd be twice as nice to do in the fall when the leaves are changing. I logged on to Amazon.com today expressly in the hopes of ordering this book - I can't recommend it enough and am looking forward to taking it with me on regional trips in the future.

As someone who works at a Nuclear plant, I've had much training on the accident at TMI in much greater detail than provided in this book (although, Gray does do a decent job at explaining how operators responded to that paricular event...he does leave out a lot, however). The best thing about this, for me, was his obvious research with regard to other facilities that had the same problem prior to TMI and the lack of a Nuclear network to help get the word out (we have an extensive network of information sharing now). The character descriptions are excellent and the story does flow like a novel...get this book (if you can find it...it's been out of print for a while) if you want a reasonably close explanation of what occured at TMI, but get it more for the story and the background information.

Very intriguing book about the near disaster at Three Mile Island. Very well written, it keeps you spellbound to the very last period. It explains what went wrong with excellent detail. Enough information to keep you spellbound, but not enough to bore you with unnecessary details. A very well written book. A must if you want to learn the true story about Three Mile Island.