What It Felt Like to Be Buried by the Great Snow of 1717 in Colonial New England

Calm Past Narratives

This is the story of Mercy Hale, a farmer's wife on a Massachusetts homestead, who began February of seventeen seventeen with a full cellar, a working barn, and no reason to believe her front door would stop opening. This is not a story told from the outside. It is told from a kitchen table, from a