Shortly before midnight on April 14th 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg. Less than three hours later, it was fully submerged in the icy waters. Tragically, over 1,500 people lost their lives. In recent reading/research I discovered that W. T. Stead was one of...
On September 17, 1928, a hurricane struck the Florida coast. The eye of it passed not too many miles south of Hobe Sound. It later became known as the Okeechobee hurricane and was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever in the recorded history of the North Atlantic. It...
I will never forget Friday, July 23rd, 1982. My dad had been admitted to the hospital the Thursday evening prior to that. Around 2:00am Friday morning, my mom received a phone call from the hospital saying that she needed to get there as quickly as she could. He died...