Howard Coffin will present "Vermont and 1816, the Year Without a Summer" at the Bridgewater Historical Society located at 12 North Bridgewater Road on Sunday May 19th at 2:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.

The year 1816 was the coldest in Vermont's history, as a frost hit every year. Crops failed, food was scarce, people left the state by the thousands. That year of suffering, known in Vermont as "1800 and froze to death." was actually part of a worldwide disaster science now understands. But in 1816, it appeared to many that the world was ending. Out of it all came stories that survive to tell a chilling tale.