“September 21, 1938, was a day of flood, fire, and hurricane that left the town of Peterborough completely altered in appearance, and dazed by a property loss of at least $500,000, exclusive of heavy forestry destruction throughout the township that amounted in many places to fully 100 percent. Miraculously, no one was seriously injured. It was the most terrible day in the memory of any of the present inhabitants, and undoubtedly the most disastrous in the town’s 199 years of existence.”

That was the beginning of David Ballard’s story about the Hurricane of 1938 in the Sept. 29, 1938 Peterborough Transcript.

The Transcript’s printing plant was destroyed, causing the paper to be printed at Sentinel Printing in.Keene and offices to be moved to the Savings Bank building on Grove Street.