LONG WINTERS. The article I linked to yesterday also had a moving description of the death of a farm family during a long winter in the Little Ice Age. By looking at what happened to the insects in their sod-walled house, archaeologists concluded that “the farmers were trapped in their house during a very long winter, ate their livestock, then their dog, and then died in their beds.” In THE LONG WINTER, one of the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder in the “Little House” series, there is a description of how an American pioneer family in the Dakotas struggled through a long winter. What happened to the Norse family shows what was at stake on the American frontier.
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Syracuse! Not only did I live most of my first 21 years there, but as part of them I attended college there. The winters were bitter on The Heights. One spring, as the sun was finally shining and couples were strolling around without jackets, basking in the almost forgotten warmth, there were still huge piles of dirty snow on campus. I guess the inner core didn’t want to give up the ghost.