Sudden Sea (32 page)

Complete Record of New England’s Stricken Area. Woonsocket
(RI)
Call.

The Devastation and Restoration of New England’s Vital Life-Line: The New Haven Railroad.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company.

Flood and Hurricane Issue.
New England Power Association.

The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave of Rhode Island.
Providence Journal Co., 1938.

The Hurricane and Flood of September 21, 1938, at Providence, R.I. Pictorial Record Bristol
, 1938.

Hurricane and Flood of 1938.
Southern New England Telephone Company.

The Hurricane of 1938, Westerly
, by William Cawley.

The Hurricane, Sept. 21, 1938
, by Lewis R. Greene.

Hurricane Tidal Wave, Charlestown
(1938).

New England Hurricane.
Federal Writers’ Project, 1938.

Watch Hill in the Hurricane of September 21, 1938.
Charles Hammond, ed.,
Seaside Topics
, Watch Hill, R.I.

_____ NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS

Boston Globe
, September 1938.

Brooklyn Eagle
, September 1938.

Easthampton
(LI)
Star
, September 1938.

Hartford Courant
, September 1938, September 1988.

Life
, July–October 1938.

Newport Daily News
, September 1938.

New York Herald-Tribune
, July–September 1938.

New York Sun
, September 1938.

New York Times
, July–September 1938.

Providence Journal-Bulletin
, September 1938, September 1988.

Tidings
, August 1988 (Hurricane Issue).

Time
, July–October 1938.

Westerly
(RI)
Sun
, September 1938, September 1988.

Yankee
, September 1939 (Hurricane Issue).

_____ WEBSITES

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hurricane38
The American Experience:

The Hurricane of 1938.
www 2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/38hurricane
The Long Island Express

www.aoml.noaa.gov

www.greatoceanliners.net/contedisavoia

_____ ARTICLES

“The Atlantic Hurricanes” by Edward N. Rappaport and Avila A. Lixion,
Weatherwise
, February–March 1995.

“Big Wind Man” by J. Kobler,
Life
, October 4, 1948.

“Engineering Aspects of the New England Hurricane of 1938” by James A. Grant,
The Military Engineer
31, no. 176, March–April 1939.

“The Geography of Hurricanes,”
National Geographic
, September 1980.

“Geography of a Hurricane,”
National Geographic
, April 1939.

“Gordon E. Dunn: Preeminent Forecaster of Midlatitude Storms and Tropical Cyclones” by Robert Burpee,
Weather and Forecasting
, December 1989.

“Grady Norton: Hurricane Forecaster and Communicator Extraordinaire” by Robert Burpee,
Weather and Forecasting
, September 1988.

“Hurricane Hazard in New England,”
Geographical Review
, January 1939.

“Hurricane Modification of the Off-Shore Bar of Long Island, New York” by Arthur David Howard,
Geographical Review
, 1939.

“Hurricanes” by Robert Simpson,
Scientific American
, June 1954.

“Hurricanes and Shore-Line Changes in Rhode Island” by Charles W. Brown,
Geographical Review
29, 1939.

“Hurricanes in New England” by Charles F. Brooks,
Geographical Review
29, December 1939.

“The Meteorological History of the New England Hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938” by Charles H. Pierce,
Monthly Weather Review
67, August 1939.

“The Recent Hurricane in New England” by Ivan Ray Tannehill,
Scientific Monthly
, January 1939.

“The Siege of New England” by Hugh D. Cobb III,
Weatherwise
, October 1939.

“Storms of the Century,”
Weatherwise
48, June–July 1995.

“Wind and Fury” by Frances Woodward,
Atlantic Monthly
, December 1938.

“Winds and Pressures over the Sea in the Hurricane of September 1938,”
Monthly Weather Review
84, no. 7, July 1956.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R. A. Scotti grew up in Rhode Island hearing stories about the Great Hurricane of 1938. She is the author of numerous thrillers and novels of international espionage and is a former journalist at the
Providence Journal
and
Newark Star-Ledger.
This is her second work of nonfiction.