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Officiële naam: Everett Slocum Allen
Geboortedatum: 1916-09-29
Overlijdensdatum: 1990-08-05
Graflocatie: Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Massachusetts, USA
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Woonplaatsen: New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA
Fairhaven, Massachusetts, USA
Opleiding: Middlebury College
Beroepen: newspaper reporter
newspaper columnist
Relaties: Joseph Chase Allen (father)
Korte biografie: The son of Vineyard Gazette reporter and columnist Joseph Chase Allen, Everett S. Allen was born in New Bedford but lived on Martha's Vineyard from age 8 until his graduation from high school. He returned to New Bedford after college and was hired as a waterfront reporter for the New Bedford Standard Times on September 20, 1938, the day before the most powerful hurricane in the recorded history of New England struck the city. His coverage of the storm damage made his reputation, and (except for service in the US Navy during World War II) he remained at the Standard Times as a reporter and columnist until his retirement in 1979, refusing a promotion to associate editor because he preferred to write.

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A Wind to Shake the World: The Story of the 1938… door Everett S. Allen

Everett S. Allen’s A Wind to Shake the World: The Story of the 1938 Hurricane is a harrowing account of the devastation wrought by that powerful storm which blasted its way across Long Island and through Connecticut and Massachusetts. This is largely a series of vignettes of death and destruction, tragedy and loss, bravery and heroism told with a deft touch that adds pathos and poignancy to this dramatic narrative.

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ghr4 | Jul 27, 2020 |

Children of the light;: The rise and fall of New… door Everett S Allen

This book was given to my grandfather by my aunt back in 1977. I'm very sure that Grandpa read it, but think I am the only person in the family who has also read it; it is not the kind of thing that appealed to the other adults in the family back then and it has been hanging out in my library - unread since then - since about 1995. It does indeed concern the Artic whaling fleet, but it is also about so much more, covering New Bedford in its early days, whales and whaling, the Inuit, the Arctic, Quakers, whaleships, the Sandwich Islands, the business side of whaling, the Howland brothers (who lost 9 of their total 13 ship fleet to Arctic disasters) and the fatal bowhead whaling expedition of 1871. This book was tremendously informative and so well written by a man who was well acquainted with many of the old Whaling Masters of New Bedford. I particularly liked this bit that he wrote about them -

"Yet there was this in common about them - their humor, subtle or brash, concerned itself most often with man's smallness and temporariness in the universe. They understood, without actually saying so, that death waited in the wings every day, yet understanding it, did not concern themselves with it. "Not one damn," as one of them said to me. Understanding what man could not do, they nevertheless had great faith in what he could; they possessed extraordinary self-confidence, unshatterable nerves (I do not remember with facial or other mannerisms; they sat and stood with the calm of eternity), and they could, at a moment's notice, tell you at least one reasonable way of doing almost everything on earth with which they had ever had contact."

Wish I'd read it a long time ago, but perhaps I would not have appreciated it then as much as I do now.… (meer)

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