[Sca-cooks] Harvest times

[Jeff Gedney]

>If so, then why were the trains not able to get in or out?  Why were there high
>snow drifts?  Why did the people nearly starve and/or freeze to death?  Her
>account doesn't jibe with what you are saying.  You should read her book, "The Long
>Winter".

It is, in the end, a book, written by a human with all the 
fallibilities of memory that humans are prone to, and all the 
tendencies toward artistic licence that novelists are wont.

Perhaps Laura Ingalls Wilder wanted to combine plot elements 
and character ages/situations from from '81 with the dramatic 
tension of the hard winter in '86.

Perhaps she just misremembered the date.  
It was written about 40 years after the fact, IIRC.
How many of us can recall which of the firt 10 winters of your 
life was the hardest/coldest without an almanac?

More importantly, what did they cook for that hard winter?

Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing