On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach, Florida. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over 2,000 people. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad.
Author: Robert Mykle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 06/23/2006
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.72w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781589792982
About the Author
Robert Mykle has written for the Cape Cod Times, The Palm Beach Post, and numerous other publications. He lives in Lake Worth, Florida.
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