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By John Trott
The Virginia Naturalist
on Indian Supimer, and the whole staff, plus a visitor, became involved. This is usually the case with those fine people. Volunteer Frances Thornton announced: “...a period of warm weather after the first hard frost.” My good friend Diana Bird, visiting the library, mused: “Is it somehow like ‘Indian giver?’” An interesting thought, typical of Diana who often gives me new ideas or a perceptive slant on an old one. ‘Indian giver,’ a gift bestowed, maybe unexpected, then taken back. Yes, that is Indian Summer for the gift of a second summer is indeed taken away by a cold wind from the north.
Librarian David Shaffer made a telephone call. While I was making notes, he silently placed a note on my writing pad: “1778, de Crevecoeur”; the date the term Indian Summer is first recorded as being used and its author, an obviously French name. Was he one of those Europeans who came to write of-and record the wonders of the New World? Answers often reveal new questions.
Two encyclopedias produced contradictory statements on the weather patterns producing the “fifth season.” One stated, and I paraphrase: A large mass of warm tropical air pushed north by southerly winds. Another version: Cold, high pressure masses of air move south from Canada, settle down and become stagnant and warmer. This produces a layer of warm air aloft which traps the warm air below and
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