Baby, It's Cold Outside

‘’The Winter Evening’’

American Winter Scene  Currier & Ives 

O winter, ruler of the inverted year...

I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem’st,

And dreaded as thou art!...I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness,

And all the comforts that the lowly roof 

of  undisturb’d retirement, and the hours 

Of long uninterrupted evening, knows.                                                    William Cowper 1785  

The Little Ice Age

Lasting from the early 14th century until the mid-19th century, the ‘Little Ice Age’ was disastrous on a global scale.  From the 1620’s until the 1690’s, longer winters and cooler summers disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests across Europe; the coast of Iceland was so blocked by ice that no ships could dock. Most of the rivers in Europe froze over and ice on the Baltic Sea was thick enough to walk from one side to the other.

Good Vibrations:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmWvR-kdnCo