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August Gale A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm

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ISBN-10: 0762784903

ISBN-13: 9780762784905

Edition: N/A

Authors: Barbara Walsh

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InAugust Gale, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barbara Walsh—who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career—faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death. Sixty-eight years after the hurricane that claimed several of her ancestors, Walsh searches for memories of the August gale and the…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English

Preface
Walsh Family Tree
A Sudden Wind-Brooklyn, August 1935
Lured by the Gale-Maine, February 2002
The King of Marystown- Newfoundland, 1935
The Family Storm Unravels- New Hampshire, 2002
"Tis Nothing but Worry and Waiting"- Marystown, August 1935
Victory Ships and a San Francisco Tempest- My parents' kitchen, April 2003
Gathering a Crew-Marystown, August 1935
The Sisters Gather-Newburyport, Mass., May 2003
Father McGettigan's Torment- Marystown, late August 1935
Pictures of the Past-Maine, June 2003
A Premonition and a Dark Cloud- Marystown, August 1935
Heading into the Storm-Newfoundland, June 2003
Mustering Courage on Board Annie Anita and Mary Bernice-August 21,1935
"Welcome Home"-Marystown, June 2003
The Tempest Roars North-North Atlantic, 1935
Chasing Ancestors-Marystown, June 2003
"There's a Divil Corning!"-Newfoundland Fishing Grounds, August 1935
Mountainous Waves and Mighty Men- Marystown, 2003
Prayers and Apparitions-Marystown, August 1935
"My Poor Daddy Was Lost"-Marystown, 2003
Shipwrecked Schooners and Bodies Swallowed by the Sea-Newfoundland, 1935
"The Whole Town Just Stumbled into Shock"- Marystown, 2003
McGettigan's Grim Task-Marystown, August 1935
A Final Voyage-Marystown, 2003
'"Tis the Queerest Wake"-Marystown, 1935
Ambrose Continues to Haunt-Marystown, 2003
Digging Up the Grave-Marystown, 1935
Graveyards and Redemption- Marystown, June 2003
The Storm Still Lingers-Marystown, 1935
August Thunder and Ambrose's Daughters- New Hampshire, August 2003
"Left in a Dreamland"-Newfoundland, 1935-2005
One Last Journey-Brooklyn and Staten Island, October 2006
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Newfoundland and Nautical Terms
August Gale Storm Track
Where Paddy and James Sailed
Houses of Fishermen Who Died in the Storm
The Walsh Tragedy Song
About the Author