Some folks got a cut off message, so here it is again. My email is doing some strange things today. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Counseller To: Barb Provalenko ; Bill Anderson ; Bob and Mary Riggle ; Bob McMaken ; Calvin Eugene Bradbury ; Dee Doyle ; Delaware New Castle County ; Doris Dunham Rieck ; Dr. Lisa Ruble Graham ; Ethel Smith Chandler ; Harry J. Gray (Jr) ; Henry County Historical Society ; Ilene Gleim ; INDIAN ROOTS ; Jay County Genealogy Society ; Jeanette Browning ; Jenny Bethurem ; John Daniel Gray ; John David Counceller ; Julie Counceller ; Ken and Jill Drake ; Kenneth Marcum ; Larry Jolly ; Marilyn Counseller ; Marna Wilson ; MICHIGAN GENEALOGY ; Mitsawokett ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; Norman L. Runyon ; PA- OLD- [email protected] ; Phyrnia Bradberry Petersen ; Ray Counsellor ; Richard L. Counsellor ; Shirley Jean Coop Hylinski ; Terri and Kevin Counceller ; Thelma Wineberg ; Treva Bradberry Snyder ; [email protected] ; Wayne & Vena Runyan Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 10:49 AM Subject: [Mitsawokett] 1816-the year without a summer Happy Thanksgiving On this, Thanksgiving Day, we should be thankful for all the blessings we enjoy. And we should be mindful and appreciative of the trials and tribulations of past generations. Imagine yourself and family on the frontier, or even in a small town or village, in the year 1816. Most of our ancestors were farmers during this period, relying entirely upon the land and their own labors to provide the very basic of needs, that being food. Imagine yourself in the year 1816. 1816 - 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 feet 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 states. 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. Chuck Counceller Connersville, IN eGroups Sponsor This is a message from the list Mitsawokett.