1938 Hurricane - JHS Firsthand Accounts

Jamestown Historical Society Firsthand Accounts

Local residents Jim Buttrick, Harry Wright, read Letters describing the hurricane;

Archie Clarke tells the fate of the ferryboats;

Donald Richardson and Manny Neronha give descriptions of the day of the hurricane on Jamestown;

and Linda Warner reads the Armbrust Telegram and the newspaper accounts of two Jamestowners

from the JHS archives.