Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane that Transformed New England (In-Person)
Monday, December 136:30—8:15 PMMain Floor- Main Reading RoomAmherst Town Library14 Main Street, Amherst, NH, 03031
A hurricane will never surprise us again. But that’s what happened to the people of New England on September 21, 1938. Without any warning, the most destructive weather event ever to hit the Northeast pummeled the coast and blasted its way to Vermont and New Hampshire with torrential rain, flooding, and sustained winds of 100 miles per hour.
Join Stephen Long, author of Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane that Transformed New England, to hear the story of New England’s Katrina.
Long focuses on the devastation to the region’s forests in a time before chainsaws and skidders, and the daunting challenge facing New Englanders still in the throes of the Great Depression. His presentation is richly illustrated with archival photos of storm damage and the unprecedented recovery operation. Eighty years later, New Hampshire’s current forest mix springs largely from this hurricane that uprooted a billion board feet of its white pine forests.
Copies of the book will be available for sale.
This program is sponsored by the Historical Society of Amherst, in collaboration with the Amherst Town Library.
In-Person Program. Registration Required.
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