We’ve had snow on the ground since December 26th. Since the ice storm last week, nearly everything is covered in or has turned to pure ice. When temperatures momentarily spiked at 41 degrees last Sunday, we hacked out walkways, but these are the days when it feels like it will never get warm. But it …
I posted this interview with historian Julie Flavell on Georgian London, a wonderful site created by Lucy Inglis: Here in the States we always think of Great Britain as the place America separated itself from; what is wonderful about When London Was Capital of America is how Julie Flavell (below) reminds us of how much …
“The public mood is kept in a constant state of excitement by what are called telegrams. They are short and spicy and can easily be inserted into country newspapers.” –President James Buchanan, December 1860
On Wednesday, number seven, this time featuring a little snow, topped by nasty ice and freezing rain. This froze into an impenetrable ice cap. You can barely move the stuff, and what little you can move has no place to go. We need three of four days of meltage, just to give us some space!
Tuesday brought about four inches. Our seventh storm since Boxing Day, although small beer, at least for this season.