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The 1937 Flood Journal

Neil Sagebiel

A serialized account of the record Ohio River deluge that devastated my family and an entire region.

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How I Met Flood Survivor Lettie Hatcher Clark

PORTSMOUTH, OHIO — It’s been a decade since my first trip to this southern Ohio river town in the Appalachian foothills. I was returning home from Indiana, and Portsmouth was not far off the usual route.

By this time, the flood had expande...

6 days ago
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The Town That Moved: Leavenworth, Indiana

LEAVENWORTH, INDIANA — The next time I might try the meatloaf or chicken pot pie. But I wouldn’t change the view.

It was a Sunday afternoon in April at the popular Overlook Restaurant, which sits on a bluff above the Ohio River. Our cousin...

14 days ago
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'The Gas Is Bubbling Up and Burning on the Water'

HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA — James Wellman, a student at Marshall College, was astonished at all he’d seen as the Ohio River poured into Huntington.

“Many strange things have happened here and in this vicinity,” James wrote in a letter to a...

a month ago
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Dogs Running in Packs and Houses Floating Away

HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA — “The dogs are beginning to run in packs. They are famished. A man had a dozen hogs in this barn loft out in the water. A pack of 19 dogs swam out to them and killed and ate one. The owner shot all the dogs.”

Tho...

2 months ago
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Flood Denial: 'Daddy Didn't Believe'

The flood caught nearly everybody by surprise. It wrecked property and scattered families. Following are first-hand accounts from Southern Indiana.

Frank Rose: ‘We Were Going to Stay’

Frank Rose was 17. He lived with his father and two si...

3 months ago
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    Author of two critically acclaimed books that chronicle great moments in golf. I love history and family stories. Let me tell you a story.

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