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 The
Book...
Come and learn more about the setting, characters and events of the story. |
 Eau
Claire 1900...
Roll into town and find out what life was like in this midwestern city. |
 Altoona
in 1900...
Travel by train to one of the smallest incorporated cities in the U.S. in 1900. |
 Lumbering...
Find out what life was like for a lumberjack in one of the Chippewa Valley's great pineries. |
 Life
in 1900...
Go to this site to learn what life was like for who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
 Alden
Carter...
Meet author Alden Carter, the man behind the story of Crescent Moon. |
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What was life like in the small towns and cities of the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century? How did lives change when the "endless" forests of the pineries were finally all cut down and the lumbering industry moved west? Seventh graders at Altoona Middle School sought the answers to these questions after reading the book Crescent Moon by Alden Carter as a class project. The book's setting is in Eau Claire and Altoona, Wisconsin in the early 1900's. The class created these webpages to help you understand more about the setting, events and author of the story. We hope you will enjoy them. |
| Email Mrs. Solfest with questions or comments about this page. This project was sponsored, in part, by the Altoona Foundation and the Altoona Middle School PTO. Photographs on this page are courtesy of the Chippewa Valley Museum, P. Solfest, and G. Hagen. |
Photo P. Solfest 2002 |
