Memorial Day 1962 – ‘We Must Build on Memory of That Storm’

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A half century ago, in the first summer issue of 1962, “Beachcombings” led off with a progress report on recovery from the devastating Great March Storm less than three months earlier. This nor’easter damaged or destroyed about two-thirds of the homes in Harvey Cedars, leveled Holgate, broke through the Island in three places and washed away most of the Island […]

1962: Diary of Destruction

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Editor’s Note: Carl and Dorothea Sjostrom owned an ocean to bayfront strip of land just north of Harvey Cedars and built two small cottages there, one nestled safely behind a large dune and the other fronting the bay. Following are excerpts from Dorothea’s diary, written at their home in Grovers Mills, during and after the Great March Storm of 1962. […]