The Year Without a Summer

EPISODE · Jul 2, 2016 · 9 MIN

The Year Without a Summer

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In 1815, there was a tremendous volcanic explosion in Indonesia, with millions of tons of dust, ash, and gas spewed into the upper atmosphere. The next year, all that debris blocked the sun’s energy on the other side of the world to such an extent that the people of Appalachia called 1816 “eighteen hundred and […]

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