CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO ALL!
The weather is rough at present for some of us, but look at what your ancestors indured in
1816.
Imagine being at the edge of civilization, trying to feed your family.
I'll take our 24 inch snowfall and be thankful.
Chuck Counceller
Connersville, Indiana ( Land of the Indians)
"THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER"
January and February 1816 were warm and springlike. March was cold and stormy.
Vegetation had gotten a good start in April, but then winter conditions set in.
Sleet and snow fell on 17 days in May that year. In June there was frost or snow every
night but three. Snow measured five inches deep for several days in succession in the
interior of New York and from 10 inches to three of snow was reported in Vermont and
Maine.
July was cold and frosty and ice formed as thick as window panes in every one of the New
England state.
August was even worse. Ice formed an inch thick on everything green.
In the spring of 1817, corn that had been kept over from the crop of 1815 sold for $5 to
$10 a bushel for the buyers purchasing for seed.