![]() ![]() * In the Moonlight, Waiting, Clarion, 1990. * Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Scholastic, 1989. * Big Old Bones: A Dinosaur Tale, Clarion, 1989. * The Elephant in the Dark, Clarion, 1988. * What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs?, Clarion, 1986. * Dark and Full of Secrets, Clarion, 1984. * The Longest Float in the Parade, Greenwillow, 1982. * The Crocodiles Still Wait, Houghton/Clarion, 1980. * A Rabbit for Easter, Greenwillow, 1979. * Paul's Christmas Birthday, Greenwillow, 1978. * The Highest Balloon on the Common, Greenwillow, 1977. * The Blue Lobster: A Life Cycle, Dial, 1975. Stay Away from Simon is set in West Tisbury in the early 1800s.įOR CHILDREN ILLUSTRATED BY HUSBAND, DONALD CARRICK Another Vineyard book, Two Very Little Sisters, has as its principal characters the Chilmark-born Adams Sisters, midgets who were members of the P.T. In a 1990 review of In the Moonlight, Waiting, their last book together, the late Ruth Mehrtens Galvin wrote of Carol’s extraordinary ability “to explore the world as a child experiences it, in all its astonishing, terrifying, marvelous variety.” The setting of the book was the Chilmark farm of Clark and Pamela Goff where children, by moonlight, are awaiting the arrival of the first spring lamb. They had built a cabin there above a pond before they came to the Island.ĭonald Carrick died in 1989. Both parents were nature and animal lovers, and the adventures of their sons were frequently in outdoor places - if not on the Vineyard, then in Greensboro, Vt., where the Carrick family escaped from the maelstrom of the Vineyard in summer. ![]() Carrick, often had the couple’s sons Christopher and Paul as their principal characters. Her books, many of them a joint venture with her late husband, the landscape artist and illustrator Donald F. The cause was complications from a stroke. In 1954, Hurricane Carol hit the state, killing 72 people and causing an estimated $460 million in damages in today's dollars. Tropical storm Diane ravaged the coast of New England a year later, unleashing some of the most devastating floods the region has seen and killing dozens of people.She lived in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.Ĭarol Carrick, the award-winning author of more than four dozen children’s books and books for young adults, many with a Vineyard setting, died unexpectedly at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on June 6. ![]() Most of the destruction was caused by water and the worst damage was right along the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Almost 700 people died and more than 60,000 people lost their homes, according to news reports. When the storm started accelerating, it caused a huge storm surge that we've never seen in modern history in New England.” ![]() "The 1938 was one of the worst hurricanes to ever hit New England," said Kottlowski. "It was a fast-moving hurricane and caught a lot of people off guard. When the hurricane struck the coast, it took nearly everyone by surprise. The day it landed, the Associated Press reported that a “tropical hurricane” was heading towards the Northeast, but this was before the advance of forecasting technology. The most damaging storms turn into hurricanes with winds of more than 74 mph like the hurricane of September 1938, considered by weather experts to be the worst storm to ever hit New England. Sights like this were common all along the coast, as new New England faced a cleanup job which took weeks. Fire at the height of the storm added to the terror and destroyed a quarter of a square mile of the business district, Sept. Contributed Photo Show More Show Less 35 of110 Boats and piers at New London, Conn., are a mess of broken wreckage after the hurricanes. Photo courtesy of the Greenwich Historical Society. Pictured are two unidentified men working to get water out of a typical basement in Greenwich. But the town did sustain hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Greenwich, which was sheltered by Long Island, escaped major damage that affected eastern Connecticut, Long Island, Massachusetts and especially Rhode Island. 21, killing hundreds in New England and New York state. 33 of110 34 of110 In September 1938, what was dubbed the Great New England Hurricane smashed coastal areas of New York state and New England, including Greenwich, with a ferocity rarely seen. ![]()
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