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Jul 27, 2020 · The most compelling story Drye encountered is of Bernard Russell, whose family settled in Islamorada in 1850. Russell was 16 when the hurricane ripped through, Drye recounted. His family rode out the storm in a lime packing house doubling as a storm shelter.
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Published Sept. 1, 1985 Labor Day, Sept. 2, 1935. Five miles offshore, J.A. Duncan, the lighthouse keeper at Alligator Reef, finished supper and looked up to see a wave the size of a nine-story building rolling toward him. The monster swelled to 136 feet, slapped the lighthouse’s great glass face unimaginably far into the night air and roared over ...
Published May 31, 2015 Just inside Woodlawn Cemetery off busy Eighth Street, across from an AutoNation Nissan dealership, a granite monument marks the final resting place of 79 U.S. soldiers buried in a mass grave after one of the worst hurricanes to ever strike U.S. shores. The marker, erected by a Miami American Legion Post, is dedicated to “our ...
Published Aug. 31, 1997 Every Labor Day, Bernard Russell brings a bougainvillea wreath to the middle of the Overseas Highway and says a prayer for those who made it their final resting place. He retells his story at the Hurricane Monument, a coral rock crypt where countless bodies were cremated and buried after the 1935 hurricane. Stories of his 50...
Bernard Russell, a native of Whale Harbor and part-time fishing guide, has a deep-rooted connection with the ocean and the local fishing industry. He was born and raised in Key West, and currently resides in Islamorada.
Oct 13, 2005 · In 1935, when Bernard Russell was 17, the most powerful hurricane in United States history swept through the Upper Keys. On Labor Day night, the unnamed storm, with its 250-mph winds and a...
When John Platero, an Associated Press reporter, wrote a story about the hurricane in 1985 on its 50th anniversary, he found one 67-year-old Keys resident named Bernard Russell. The man’s...
With the coming of the first overseas highway (1928), more resorts appeared in the Keys, such as the Matecumbe Hotel known then as the Russell Arms Hotel. Doddridge and Burnell Russell of Key West built the hotel.
The Nature Conservancy, The Center for Marine Conservation. Bernard Russell. Changes in the Florida Keys Marine Ecosystem Based Upon Interviews with Experienced Residents. Bernard Russell, a native of Whale Harbor and part-time fishing guide, has a deep-rooted connection with the ocean and the local fishing industry.
