The year 1978 rings a sharp bell for New Englanders.  In February of that year, one of the roughest and most damaging winter storms struck the Greater Boston area. 

In over 200 vintage images, seven-time Arcadia Publishing author Alan R. Earls captures the catastrophic winter blizzard of 1978 and shows how the community fearlessly united to help one another.

Earls hopes the book is “something people could use to connect with an important civic episode in our region’s life – one that profoundly affected all of us, giving us a shared sense of vulnerability as well as a sense of mutual purpose and mutual obligation.”

Highlights of Greater Boston’s Blizzard of 1978:

·    Features the most number of unpublished photos of the blizzard in book form

·    Includes images from both government archives and private collections

·    Captures well-known landmark areas in Boston and Cambridge during and after the blizzard

·    Shows Route 128 and the cars trapped for over a week, as well as severe damage to Rockport, Revere, Scituate and Hull

·    Contains images from remains of Motif #1 in Rockport and the remains of Henry Beston’s “Outermost House” on Cape Cod

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com. 

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