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I don't know if this is the right section for this, but here it goes...
When I was a kid I had a book with lots of Fortean type stuff in it. It had the obvious stuff like Sasquatch and UFOs and whatnot. Later in life I rediscovered this interest, and went looking for information on old stories I remembered from my youthful reading. One I was never able to find any information whatsoever on was a story about a winter that lasted all year.
From what I remember (and this may be way off the mark) there was a year in perhaps the 19th century where the weather was like the dead of winter all year around, possibly all over the world, but at least in the United States. I would think I might have imagined it, but I have a very distinct memory of the art: a very chilly-looking songbird.
I think I remembered this story because when I read another children's book I had, which was about the tales of Paul Bunyon. One had a winter that lasted all year long. I thought that since the tall tales of that ilk were supposedly based on reality on some level, that it must have been inspired by the real-world event.
But enough rambling... Does anyone know anything about this? Did I imagine reading it all, after all?
When I was a kid I had a book with lots of Fortean type stuff in it. It had the obvious stuff like Sasquatch and UFOs and whatnot. Later in life I rediscovered this interest, and went looking for information on old stories I remembered from my youthful reading. One I was never able to find any information whatsoever on was a story about a winter that lasted all year.
From what I remember (and this may be way off the mark) there was a year in perhaps the 19th century where the weather was like the dead of winter all year around, possibly all over the world, but at least in the United States. I would think I might have imagined it, but I have a very distinct memory of the art: a very chilly-looking songbird.
I think I remembered this story because when I read another children's book I had, which was about the tales of Paul Bunyon. One had a winter that lasted all year long. I thought that since the tall tales of that ilk were supposedly based on reality on some level, that it must have been inspired by the real-world event.
But enough rambling... Does anyone know anything about this? Did I imagine reading it all, after all?
