{"id":283,"date":"2011-01-28T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:49:41","slug":"if-you-think-this-winter-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"If you think this winter is bad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just take a look at this photograph from the blizzard of 1888.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285 alignnone\" title=\"North St. Buel House LR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/North-St.-Buel-House-LR.jpg\" alt=\"North St. Buel House LR\" width=\"630\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was captioned, &#8220;A Litchfield snow drift from the great blizzard of March 12, 1888.\u00a0 Miss Minerva Buel &amp; dog and Mrs. J. A. Vanderpoel [Emily Noyes Vanderpoel] at the side of Dr. Buel&#8217;s Norway Spruces.&#8221;\u00a0 This house is on North Street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284\" title=\"I904B_6630LR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/I904B_6630LR.jpg\" alt=\"I904B_6630LR\" width=\"630\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The caption for this photo reads, &#8220;Dr. Buel&#8217;s house showing same after snow had left 1888 10 days after blizzard.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to believe all that snow could melt so fast.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a composite shot:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-286\" title=\"CompositeLR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CompositeLR.jpg\" alt=\"CompositeLR\" width=\"720\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share your photos for the archives, send your best storm shots to archivist@litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just take a look at this photograph from the blizzard of 1888. It was captioned, &#8220;A Litchfield snow drift from the great blizzard of March 12, 1888.\u00a0 Miss Minerva Buel &amp; dog and Mrs. J. A. Vanderpoel [Emily Noyes Vanderpoel] at the side of Dr. Buel&#8217;s Norway Spruces.&#8221;\u00a0 This house is on North Street. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}