"Happy" Index

September Index

A hurricane sweeps south Florida. Lake Okeechobee is blown out of its bed. Three thousand people, mostly small-farmers & migratory workers, drown.

On the sixteenth day of September,
In nineteen twenty-eight,
God started riding early,
He rode 'till very late.

     "West Palm Beach Storm,"
     collected by Alton Morris, Folksongs of Florida

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