Fiona Apple. Daughter of former singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. She was classically trained as a pianist as a child and began composing songs when she was eight years old. She crafted a demo tape while in Los Angeles finishing High School.
The Miramichi Fire. (A View of Miramichi, 1760, oil painting by Francis Swaine) These blazes whipped up into a firestorm during a dry summer in Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick in October 1825, charring a massive 3 million acres and taking out settlements along the Miramichi River.
The Peshtigo Fire, the most devastating forest fire in American history, was the biggest blaze that week, but drew little note outside of the regionâin and around Peshtigo, WisconsinÂ­â because of the attention drawn by the Great Chicago Fire.