Across the Creek: Black Powder Explosions on the Brandywine

For the first time, the hidden history of black-powder explosions and those who lost their lives in them is told in searing detail. Across the Creek, which takes its title from the powder workers' euphemism for dying in an explosion (as in "he went across the creek), tells the stories of all the 235 people who perished in detonations experienced over the 120 years of powder making at the du Pont mills on the Brandywine Creek in Northern Delaware.

Their stories are filled with pathos, irony, ...