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SUMMARY:1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816
DESCRIPTION:1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816\nA Bennington Historical Society Presentation\n\n1816 has long been known as the year without summer. Vermonters still call it “1800 and Froze to Death\,” a year of frosts every month\, dark skies\, and mysterious lights that caused a widespread belief that a higher power was displeased. \nThis talk includes scores of anecdotes about the dark year of failed crops\, scarce food\, and religious revival. The horrible weather also came in the aftermath of the War of 1812\, which produced shortages and an economic crisis. \nVermonters coped with the cold year with neighbor helping neighbor. But some greedy merchants sought to exploit shortages by charging higher and higher prices. \nThe cold year seems to have hit Vermont harder than any other state. But the effects of the disaster were very much worldwide. In Europe\, visitors to the continent mistook bands of beggars along the roadways for invading armies. And out of it came literary accomplishments\, including a grand poem by Lord Byron and a dark novel by Mary Shelley. \nAbout the Presenter \n\nA seventh-generation Vermonter\, Howard Coffin is the author of four books on the Civil War: Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today’s Vermont; Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War; Nine Months to Gettysburg; and The Battered Stars\, as well as Guns Over the Champlain Valley\, a book on military sites along the Champlain Corridor. \n\nBennington Museum requires the use of a face mask that covers both the mouth and the nose at all times while inside the building. Thank you for helping to keep all of our visitors and staff healthy. \n1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816 is a Vermont Humanities Council program hosted by the Bennington Historical Society of Bennington Museum. (Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions\, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH or VHC.) \nThe Bennington Historical Society is a volunteer-run program of Bennington Museum. The BHS offers its programs at no charge. Please consider supporting the efforts of the BHS to share the history of our region by making a donation. \nSupport the BHS\n 
URL:https://benningtonmuseum.org/event/bhs2022march/
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