This was sent from another list that I am on. For those of us that are experiencing a frigid April, read on and see that it is not as bad as in 1816! Decatur County Journal June 9, l892 The year without a summer, l8l6, is now being quite generally recalled. According to the records, January and February of that year were warm and spring like, March was cold and stormy. Vegetation had gotten well along in April when real winter set in. Sleet and snow fell on seventeen different days in May. In June there was either frost or snow every night but three. The snow was five inches deep for several days in succession in the interior of New York and from ten inches to three feet in Vermont and Maine. July was cold and frosty, ice formed as thick as window panes in every one of the New England States. August was still worse; ice formed nearly an inch in thickness, and killed nearly every green thing in the United States and in Europe. In the spring of l8l7, corn, which had been kept over from the crop of l8l5, sold for from $5 to $l0 a bushel, the buyers purchasing for seed. We had other cold summers, but none that have equaled l8l6 in that respect. On May l0, l835, snow fell to the depth of a foot in Jamestown, Va., and was piled up in huge drifts in most of the northern states. There was snow in many parts of Iowa and Illinois on May ll, l878, and again as late as May 2l, l882. Bur-r-r-r-r! Mary McG in Tennessee May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks, May your heart be light as a song. May each day bring you bright happy hours, That stay with you all year long.