20190519 BHS Howard Coffin Vermont 1816 Year Without a Summer
Channel: Woodstock Community Television
Date: 2019-05-22

Historian and author Howard Coffin speaks about the year 1816, the coldest in Vermont's history. Crops failed, food was scarce, and people left the state by the thousands. Now science understands that it was part of a worldwide disaster, but in 1816 it appeared to many that the world was ending.