Devastation on the Delaware
Stories and Images of the Deadly Flood of 1955
Edited by Rebecca Valentine
Historic narrative nonfiction
6 x 9 Softcover
456 pages, 105 historic photos, 12 maps, charts & diagrams
Informal Notes section, extensive bibliography
Appendix, fully indexed
$19.95 (Fifty cents of each copy sold is donated to the Delaware RiverKeeper Network, a non-profit environmental advocacy group.)
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Synopsis: The only comprehensive documentary treatment of this record-breaking weather disaster.
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About the Author |
 Mary Shafer makes her living as a full-time freelance writer in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Mary writes fiction and non-fiction books when she's not writing marketing copy and articles for trade and consumer magazines through her freelance business, The Word Forge.
She is a certified storm spotter in the National Weather Service SkyWarn program; volunteer weather coordinator of her township's Emergency Management Agency; and founder of the Amateur Weather Enthusiasts of America (AWE-USA).
Learn more about Mary at her website. |
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August 18-20, 1955: Three terrifying days and nights still remembered with awe in the Delaware River Valley. Record-breaking rainfall—almost two feet in some places—from twin hurricanes abruptly ended a withering drought, but the relief was short-lived. It was overshadowed by terror and destruction that tore away bridges and snatched people, still sleeping, from their beds in the middle of the night. The only book devoted solely to this record-setting flood on the Delaware River and many of its tributaries, this comprehensive documentary covers the most heavily affected areas on both sides of the river between Port Jervis, New York and Trenton, New Jersey. Author Mary A. Shafer interviewed more than a hundred survivors and eyewitnesses to bring the events to chilling life in this definitive account of a tragic weather disaster that changed life in the Delaware Valley forever.
- Named Notable Book in the Reference category of the 2006 Writers Notes Magazine Annual Book Awards
- Finalist in both the U.S. History and Nature Writing categories of the 2006 USABookNews Annual Awards competition.
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