This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0492_01C0553B.1B92A280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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