In a message dated 3/4/03 12:36:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, Margot62@aol.com writes: > I have some sketchy information and am wondering if anyone can help. I am > looking for information on a woman who was washed away with her house in > Westerly in 1938 during the hurricane. She presumably lived alone, had > older children who weren't with her at the time. She presumably drowned > and her house was destroyed. > She most likely lived on Napatree Point, which is in the Watch Hill section of Westerly. Before the '38 Hurricane, the point (actually a long sand spit) was lined with summer cottages. ALL were washed away during the hurricane and quite a few persons drowned as a consequence. Napatree was never rebuilt on and is now a nature preserve dividing Little Narragansett Bay (not to be confused with Narragansett Bay) and the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. There are stories of a few survivors who floated on debris from the wrecked houses several miles downwind to the Connecticut mainland in Stonington. JIM GIBBS