Margaret enjoyed this note from yesterday’s New York Times (registration required). The centerpiece lines:
“It was the darkness that did it. I don’t believe -70 temperatures would be bad in daylight. . . .”
“This is how 5 human beings and 25 animals faced the beginning of the savage winter of the plains in a 12-by-14-foot shack. This was how we lived and suffered. The chickens were generous with their perfumes and we withstood this, but the stench of the calf tethered in the corner was well-nigh intolerable.”
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