The Hurricane And Flood Of September 1938
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Author | : R. A. Scotti |
Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2008-12-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 031605478X |
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Author | : Cherie Burns |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802142542 |
With masterful storytelling skill, Burns follows the punishing path of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which hit the eastern seaboard, from Long Island to Connecticut and Rhode Island, in a seamless and suspenseful narrative, preserving for posterity the personal stories of survivors and the legend of the storm.
Author | : Carl G. Paulsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Floods |
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Author | : Connecticut Ground Water Survey |
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Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Floods |
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Author | : Stephen Long |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 030022088X |
The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. This book is the first to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England, bringing about social and ecological changes that can still be observed these many decades later. The hurricane’s impact was erratic—some swaths of forest were destroyed while others nearby remained unscathed; some stricken forests retain their prehurricane character, others have been transformed. Stephen Long explores these contradictions, drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, where he discovers clues to the storm’s legacies even now. Thirty-Eight is a gripping story of a singularly destructive hurricane. It also provides important and insightful information on how best to prepare for the inevitable next great storm.
Author | : Lourdes B. Avilés |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Hurricanes |
ISBN | : 9781878220370 |
"On September 21, 1938 the great New England hurricane hit the shores of New York and New England unannounced. The most powerful storm of the century, it changed everything, from the landscape and its inhabitants' lives, to Red Cross and Weather Bureau protocols, to the amount of Great Depression Relief New Englanders would receive, and the resulting pace of regional economic recovery"--Provided by publisher.
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Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Floods |
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Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
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Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Water-supply |
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Author | : Nancy Finlay |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0819571253 |
Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009) Winner of the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (2010) This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main Street in Hartford five years before Nathaniel Currier went into a similar business in New York and more than twenty-five years before Currier founded his partnership with James M. Ives, yet Daniel and his brothers Elijah and Edmund Kellogg have long been overshadowed by the Currier & Ives printmaking firm. Editor Nancy Finlay has gathered together eight essays that explore the complexity of the relationships between artists, lithographers, and print, map, and book publishers. Presenting a complete visual overview of the Kelloggs' production between 1830 and 1880, Picturing Victorian America also provides museums, libraries, and private collectors with the information needed to document the Kellogg prints in their own collections. The first comprehensive study of the Kellogg prints, this book demands reconsideration of this Connecticut family's place in the history of American graphic and visual arts. CONTRIBUTORS: Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C. Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway.