Storm causes power outage on Marco Island. Over 15,000 people on Marco Island were without power for more than seven hours Sunday morning. Violent storm winds Saturday night caused the main transmission line feeding the island to go down, leaving many businesses and homes in the dark.
In 1968 Hamer founded the Freedom Farms Corporation (FFC) a non-profit venture designed to help poor farming families. It also provided social services and grants for education. Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mound Bayou, Mississippi on 14th March 1977.
A popular athlete and graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Grenier had died in the crash of an Army A-12 aircraft in Utah while flying a mail route on February 16, 1934.The residents of the Manchester area had quickly become familiar to the drone of the bombers operating out of Grenier Field, but changes were soon to come.