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Article Excerpt
Hemingway's Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935. By Phil Scott. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. Cloth. 246 pp. $24.95.
Phil Scott's Hemingway's Hurricane is a nonfiction account of the Category 5 storm that struck the Florida Keys on Labor Day weekend in 1935, traumatizing the Middle Keys, killing hundreds, and prompting Hemingway's savage account in The New Masses--"Who Murdered the Vets?"
Scott's thoroughly researched book follows the beginnings of the 1935 hurricane from the first Weather Service bulletins from the Atlantic to the reports of Pan Am pilots as they flew past the storm. Using archived records, Scott explains the formation of the hurricane from its unusual beginnings in the Antilles to its destructive path through Florida's Middle Keys.
As the storm began to take shape, approximately 700 World War I veterans were living in three Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) camps in the Keys, helping to build an Overseas Highway bridging the islands from the mainland to Key West. The highway followed along the path of Henry Flagler's Railroad, often considered the Eighth Wonder of the World because of...
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