Weston History Bites: Blizzard of 1888

How have people in the past documented unprecedented events in their lives? In March of 1888, a huge blizzard (some called it the Great White Hurricane) rocked the east coast for three days. Weston did not escape its wrath. Those who lived through it felt it was the storm of the century. Weston resident at the time, Helen Elizabeth Fitch Sturges, wrote about the momentous storm while living through it.

See her journal entries here which were printed in the 1988 Chronicle Quarterly Issue 1!

You can read the entire issue and more about the Blizzard of 1888 here!

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