Mount Tambora, Frankenstein and Climate Change

When you are bent at the shovel for twelve hours, you do a lot of thinking. In April of 1815 a volcano called Mount Tambora erupted in what is now Indonesia. The eruption, classified by volcanologists as “super-colossal” was about twenty times more powerful than the Mt St. Helens eruption in 1980 and was heard [...]

Spending The Night In 1845

Sunday, 7 February 2010, 11:28 | Category : Harpers Ferry
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I left work on Friday at about noon, just as the snow was starting to fall pretty heavily. When I got home I parked the cars carefully, so I’d be able to broom all the snow off into the grass, instead of the driveway, where I’d have to shovel it. I VPN’d into work the [...]