Stoddard County Historical Society will hold their next meeting Monday, June 25 at 6:30 pm. at the Stars and Stripes Museum.

Margaret Shackleford presents, “The Year Without Summer” an event that changed history. It became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death.

1816 was a remarkable year―mostly for the fact that there was no summer.

As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern U.S. and Europe in the summer of 1816.