Dennis Powers, author of 18 literary works including five non-fiction masterpieces on the sea, Del Norte and Crescent City will share his stories and help the City recognize this momentous event, Monday, March 18, at 6PM at the City Council Meeting.
11 Del Norters lost their lives after the tidal wave walloped the downtown during the early morning hours of March 28, 1964. The disaster followed the 9.2 Anchorage. Alaska Earthquake.
Powers chronicled the event in his book, The Raging Sea (the crushing 1964 Crescent City tsunami), 2005.
Powers hopes to meet with some of the survivors and members of the public when he addresses councilors with a power point presentation at the Council meeting. Powers plans to apprise the public of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a possible subject of his next book.
Powers, an attorney and professor emeritus at Southern Oregon university followed his passion for writing. He published his first book entitled The Office Romance in 1998, followed by The Raging Sea in 2005, Treasure Ship ( The discovery of a gold-bearing 1865 paddle-wheeler that sank off the Del Norte coast) 2006, Sentinel of the Seas (the most remote, dangerous and expensive light house in the USA), 2007, Taking the Sea ( the tales of the old ship salvagers), 2009 and Tales of the Seven Seas ( the stories of a charismatic, adventurous sea captain), 2010.
