On the night of September 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo, a Category IV storm, battered the Charleston area with hours of heavy rains and 140 mile-per-hour winds. Hundreds of boats were swept onto the land, roofs flew off buildings, acres of trees were pulverized. On the islands north of the city and in the village of McClellanville, houses just disappeared, broken into pieces and blown away.

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" commemorates Hurricane Hugo and its impact on the Medical University of South Carolina. Archival records, photographic images, and oral history interviews document the bravery of the hospital, faculty, and maintenance staffs as they protected people and facilities before, during, and after the storm.

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(Image Description: One of a number of

in Castle Pinckney. Courtesy of James H. Nicholson, MUSC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.)