On This Day in 1880 the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer reprinted a statement written last month by W. Emerson Mead describing a meteorite that just missed his cottage!
Mead’s children and his sister had al gone up to bed already
the night of the 22nd. He was sitting at the table in the kitchen
writing a letter when all of a sudden the dark night lit up as if it were noon.
“It was dark out,” wrote Mead, “and the clouds were black
and heavy. You could not see your hand before you. All at once it became as
light as noonday.”
He and his sister went out to inspect the item the next
morning. The item turned out to be a white rock. Mead said, in his reprinted
letter, that the rock weighed approximately 125 pounds.
The property was in Lakeside ,
New York , near Schroon Lake .
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©
Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015
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