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The Eye of the Storm:
A Journey into the Natural Disasters in Connecticut 


Suggestions for further reading

Allen, Everett S. A Wind to Shake the World: the Story of 1938 Hurricane. Boston: Little, Brown, c1976.

Anderson, Jerome. A Matter of Moments : a Photographic Record of Damage Wrought in Stonington, Mystic and Noank, Connecticut, by the Hurricane and Tidal Wave of September 21, 1938. Stonington, CT: Stonington Publ. Co., 1938.

Bagley, Charles. The Flood of í55 (videocassette). Connecticut Public Television, 1995.

Caplovich, Judd. Blizzard! The Great Storm of í88. Vernon, CT: VeRo Pub. Co., 1988.

Dunn, Gordon E. and Banner I. Miller. Atlantic Hurricanes. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.

Gordon, Bernard L., ed. Hurricane in Southern New England: An Analysis of the Great Storm of 1938. Watch Hill, Rhode Island: The Book and Tackle Shop, 1976.

Ludlum, David McWilliams. Country Journal New England Weather Book. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

McCarthy, Joe. Hurricane! New York: American Heritage Press, 1969.

Southern New England Telephone Company. The Hurricane and Flood of September 1938. New Haven, CT: Southern New England Telephone Company, 1939.

United States. Works Progress Administration. Connecticut. "The moving finger writes, and, having writ, moves on": a Photographic History of the Hurricane and Flood Which Devastated Connecticut on September 21, 1938. New Haven, CT: The Works Progress Administration for Connecticut, [1938?].

Waterbury Repulican. Western Connecticutís Great Flood Disaster, August 19, 1955. Waterbury [Conn.] Republican-American, [1955].

Weisman, Seymour S. Case Study of a Flood-Stricken City. [Norwalk, Connecticut]. New York: Colby, 1958.

Link to other essays in this Journey:

>> Introduction: The Eye of the Storm
>>
The Blizzard of 1888
>> The Flood of 1936
>> The Hurricane of 1938
>> The Hurricane of 1944
>> The Floods of 1955

>> Guideposts