Forced to hunker down at home by the worst snowfall in decades, history-minded East Coast residents have been contemplating America's worst winter – the deep freeze of 1779, which was a decisive ...
The winter of 1779–1780 has been called “The Hard Winter.” It is considered by climatologists and historians to be the coldest winter in the recorded history of the eastern United States. Across the ...
We are great fans of the man on our logo. So we read with interest this engaging blog entry recapping General Washington's travails in Morristown during the horrific winter of 1779/80: Ditto for us.