The Big Wind
“As to the Big Wind, I was on my elder sister’s back going to a friend beyond, and when I was coming back it was slacked away, and I was wondering at the holes in the houses.” “I was up to twelve year at the time of the Big Wind that was in ’39, and I was over at Roxborough with my father that was clearing timber from the road, and your father came out along the road, and he was wild seeing the trees and rocks whipped up into the sky the way they were with the wind. But what was that to the bitter time of the Famine that came after?”