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St. Mary the Virgin Church, Ashwell, Herts, UK Photo: AnemoneProjectors, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
A Tweet inside the tower of a 14th century church has a message for us in plague-ridden 2021.
This is the audio version of the Non-Boring History post The Remains of the Plague: A Pandemic Story, 1350.
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Excellent - very sobering. Something to remember, when so many are behaving like spoiled brats about the help available to them ...
Read Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson last summer with a group of students in a virtual book club. Naturally, it led us to a compare/contrast discussion. We all came away grateful not to be living through the yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia the summer of that year. We had some great discussions! Wish now that I had brought up the plague as well...