1935 Labor Day hurricane, one of the strongest and deadliest storms to strike the United States. It wasn’t the hurricane itself that caught my eye, though; it was the story of World War I veterans who had been sent down to work on the highway and whose lives were tragically lost. The more I researched the story, the more it called to me, and I soon began to envision the women who would populate the book and how their lives would intersect. In my research, Storm of the Century by Willie Drye, Category 5: The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane by Thomas Neil Knowles, Hemingway’s Hurricane: The Great
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