A DARK, FIERY DAY
June 24, 2008
June 24, 2008
COLUMBIA, Mo., June 24 -- The University of Missouri College of Food & Natural Resources issued the following news release:
Poet John Greenleaf Whittier called it a "horror of great darkness ... when men prayed and women wept." At noon on May 19, 1780, the sky darkened to such an extent over coastal New England that citizens of Portland, Boston and Providence ate their midday meals by candlelight.
Night birds came out to sing, flowers folded their peta . . .
Poet John Greenleaf Whittier called it a "horror of great darkness ... when men prayed and women wept." At noon on May 19, 1780, the sky darkened to such an extent over coastal New England that citizens of Portland, Boston and Providence ate their midday meals by candlelight.
Night birds came out to sing, flowers folded their peta . . .