Book of the Week (12/10/2018)

The Tornado of 1821 by Jack Noon (New Hampshire : Moose Country Press, 2018).

In New Hampshire late on a Sunday afternoon in September 1821, a tornado blasted its way from the Connecticut River to the Merrimack in a single hour by way of Lake Sunapee and Mount Kearsarge.  It was part of a rapidly advancing, 300-mile front of severe thunderstorms that stretched from Canada practically down to New York City.

The 1821 tornado hit NH towns from the Connecticut River to the Merrimack through Croydon, Sunapee, Lake Sunapee, New London, Sutton, Warner, and Webster in a single hour.

Jack’s meticulous research describes the weather events leading up to that fateful day in September 1821 when without warning, houses and barns were destroyed, forests laid flat, livestock destroyed and tragically lives were lost. --Publisher's blurb.

Jack Noon is a New Hampshire historian. The author of fourteen books of non-fiction and historical fiction, they include The Bassing of New Hampshire (1999), Muster Days at Muster Field Farm (2000), Fishing in New Hampshire, A History (2003), Lot Number 20, Eight Generations at the Muster Field Farm Museum (2014), and Up Moosilaukee (2000).