GREENSBORO – Thursday, August 21, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., historian Howard Coffin will present his lecture, “1800 and Froze to Death” at Greensboro United Church of Christ’ Fellowship Hall. This is a Vermont Humanities event hosted by Greensboro Free Library.
The year, 1816 is known as the year without summer. Vermonters experienced a year of frosts every month, dark skies, and mysterious lights in the night sky. The cold year seems to have hit Vermont harder than any other state, but the effects of the disaster were very much worldwide., with failed crops, scarce food and religious revival.
