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In the Wake of '38 (Mss. Gr. 30)

University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections

15 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881-2011
Tel: 401-874-4632

email: archives@etal.uri.edu

Collection Overview

Title: In the Wake of '38
Date range: 1977
Creator: South Kingstown High School
Extent: 6 box(es)
(2.75 linear feet)
Abstract: Oral history project sponsored by South Kingstown High School and the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, conducted in 1977 under the direction of Linda Wood and Judith Preble, school librarian and English teacher respectively. Students interviewed seventy Rhode Islanders who witnessed and survived the Hurricane of 1938.
Language of materials: English.
Repository: University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections
Collection number: Mss. Gr. 30