The Search: An Account of the Fort Road Tragedy

This book relates the tragic tale of the efforts of Paul Johnson Moore to locate his step-mother and his disabled sister, both of whom went missing during the devastating Great Hurricane of 1938. Together with 40 other houses on Fort Road on Napatree Point in Watch Hill, the Moore cottage was swept across Little Narragansett Bay by the howling winds of the hurricane. The author also lost his first cousin in the storm. The book is a detailed, first-hand, contemporary eyewitness account of th...