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@joshuawargo6446

9 ай бұрын

First video. Totally subscribed. Love the presentation, especially as someone from CT lol , keep up the great work =D

@noheader

5 ай бұрын

So you're not going to tell us what caused the phenomenon? Smh

Shortly into this episode I thought, "that sounds a lot like a forest fire in Canada." I grew up in Massachusetts and lived in Melrose (a city north of Boston) for a few years. One day about 10 years ago I came outside and thought there was a fire in downtown Melrose because it was SO smokey and hazy. No, there was a fire in Canada somewhere above the Great Lakes region! Truly amazing how much land must've been burning to produce enough smoke to make my clothes smell like I'd been at a campfire.

@cynhanrahan4012

Жыл бұрын

Happened here in Pinellas Co, FL. The fires were far north of us, but the smoke moved in early in the morning and I could smell burning. I went outside and could see smoke at the street level, and the sky was dim. The fires were more than a hundred miles away, but the winds carried them to us while feeding the fire.

@ga6589

Жыл бұрын

There have been recent wildfires to the north of us in Canada that produce smoke and haze here in Minnesota, hundred of miles away. It's been ongoing for days, depending on the wind. We've had to keep the windows closed at times, as the smell of smoke is so strong.

@eighteenin78

Жыл бұрын

My mother grew up in a house on Hillcrest off Upham on the east side. It was my grandma's home for 67 years.

@jabbermocky4520

Жыл бұрын

I'm in Rhode island. Today, May 30, 2023, smoke from the Tantallon Fire in Nova Scotia has blocked out the sun. It's way cooler than normal and the smell of smoke is thick in the air. You can SEE it moving in, like a fog bank only higher in the atmosphere. I can barely see across the Seekonk River now, which is very narrow. It started as a bright, late spring day. Now it's a mucky gray day.

@eighteenin78

Жыл бұрын

@@jabbermocky4520 There are bigger fires burning near Shelbourne NS and St Andrews in NB - both closer to you. And I am sure there are fires in Maine. But yeah smoke travels far.

Literally living through this right now in NJ from Canadian forest fires. It’s crazy. It’s like dusk at noon.

@patbrennan6572

8 ай бұрын

Sorry about that but we're doing the best we can to get it under control, It's been a rough summer.

What a timely video. Given the huge forest fires in western Canada, people here in eastern Ontario have been experiencing red suns and hazy dull days for the past two weeks. Not on the same scale as 1780 but still a reminder how events in one place can have huge effects in others. Thank you.

@Drew-bc7zj

Жыл бұрын

Central Minnesota, here. We've had just the tiniest bit of haze, just enough to notice during the day, and reddish sunrises/sunsets.

@faithyourfear6401

Жыл бұрын

Yes we've experienced a strange haze on a couple of cloudless days here in lower Michigan too. It has cleared up now. My sympathies to the folks up north.

@Drew-bc7zj

Жыл бұрын

@@faithyourfear6401 Lower Michigan? Oof. That's where my ex is from. (and has since moved back to. good riddance, ya C U Next Tuesday!)

@SugarandSarcasm

Жыл бұрын

We had a bit of haze in northwestern Ontario from the Alberta fires, but not very much

@defunctuserchannel

Жыл бұрын

Now in NY and the Northeast US

Back in 1970 when I was stationed at the San Diego Naval Station there was a huge brush fire in the surrounding hills that darken the sky a deep orange for days. It was very eerie. I could see how some back then would think it was the end times.

@johnpolhamus9041

Жыл бұрын

That was the Harbison Canyon fire. I was seven, and remember it well. Ash fell all over Pacific Beach, and we rode our bikes through it like snow!

@toastnjam7384

Жыл бұрын

@@johnpolhamus9041 I forgot about the ashes. When it was over we had to do a lot of sweeping.

@psalm2forliberty577

Жыл бұрын

Great memories - crazy I was a 6 year old in 1970 in San Diego & remember it also, it was kinda scary & dominated the headlines. Plus we were in La Mesa / El Cajon / Fletcher Hills area so quite close to this massive fire. Brush fires are all a part of So Cal life, right ? For San Diegans stuff like this, the Crest Fire & PSA 182 Crash were "watershed" events you always remember.

@dgax65

Жыл бұрын

The same happened when I was at NAS North Island in 2003. There were huge wildfires in north San Diego County and one afternoon the smoke was so thick it almost looked like the sun had gone down. A Navy PH took a great series of pictures of the USS Stennis pulling out of NASNI in the gloom. Even though you can tell the sun is well above the Point Loma hills, it is so dark that Stennis and her helos had their navigation lights on. Stennis even had the numbers on her island lit. This is a link to the image on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/134160831@N07/23576197753/

@mkuti-childress3625

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@dgax65 I was there in 2003, and it freaked me out! I had gone out the night before and was sleeping in. I kept waking up and thinking, “It’s still dark out there, so it must still be early.” I finally sat up and looked at my clock. It was 11:30 and still dark. I looked out the window and saw no sign of life, no birds, no people, no cars, and for a split second, I thought something very bad might have happened. That was so awful. I worked at a Red Cross station, and saw too many people in shock who had lost their homes.

As a New Yorker who experienced the ominous looking skies over the city two days ago along with the hazardous air caused by wildfires in Canada, I think I understand what New Englanders were experiencing in 1780.

@deemika

Жыл бұрын

You're a New Yorker? My condolences.

@rolux4853

Жыл бұрын

@@deemikait depends if he’s from state or city. State can be very beautiful. City? Meh..not so much. I’ll never understand how people can choose concrete over nature. Something must be fundamentally wrong with them..

@theburrowrises8549

Жыл бұрын

​@@rolux4853 it's not just the city that suffers.... Even western NY, for all it's beauty, suffers from the tyranny of Albany.

@deemika

Жыл бұрын

@@rolux4853 Agreed!

@claireconover

Жыл бұрын

@@deemikanew york’s great. there’s something to do at almost any hour… you can’t get bored enough in new york to post stupid bullsh*t like sending someone condolences for wherever they live.

While other lawmakers were "sprawled scross the Davenport of Despair" (a Warren Zevon lyric), legislator Abe Davenport says, "here, hold my candle!"😂

@phlogistanjones2722

Жыл бұрын

If I could give you TWO thumbs up I would simply for the Warren Zevon reference. kudos good sir, KUDOS!

Stories of dark days has filtered down through my family. 2 branches of my family had settled New England many years before the pilgrims. I love it when something matches up with what I heard as a child.

@Weshopwizard

Жыл бұрын

That’s very cool.

@rhuephus

Жыл бұрын

a few of my relatives were in North America thousands of years before the Europeans came and destroyed it and murdered most of the native inhabitants

@timothymulholland7905

Жыл бұрын

A few weeks of celibacy would make anyone shake!

@327JohnnySS

Жыл бұрын

Shadowace . What was their origin as I am curious of settlers before the pilgrims. I grew up not far away from Plymouth rock and thinks that it is history that deserves to be remembered. Thanks

@Shadowace724

Жыл бұрын

@@327JohnnySS Part of the family were fishermen that came from Scotland, I have less info on the English side, though I would imagine they immigrated for the same reason.

I live in Australia. Days like these are familiar because of bush fires. Of course, in my lifetime, there have always been media updates, warnings, fire fighters, and fire prevention. Image, if fire and disaster events happened when none of these things existed. I guess we would all turn to supernatural explanations. Thank you for a great historical perspective video!

@barborakopalova4583

Жыл бұрын

I think you are right, the description is precisely the same, what people are experiencing in such a conditions, or similar conditions are when volcano became active.

Several years ago, I was in Spokane, and there were forest fires in the vicinity. One day, the wind shifted and wafted smoke into the city. The sun became a red spot in the sky that one could safely look at without eye protection. The smoke filled cause respiratory distress to all, more so for people with respiratory problems. An unforgettable experience!

My great great .... whatever grandmother wrote of this in her journal. It was bad, they were worried about food and man's sinful behavior :). She was the third generation, her journal was one of the more interesting ones. She was dramatic and into damnnation. I always remembered her stories. My mom used to read from the journals sometimes at night when we were up there (NH) as kids. It was the 70s people did stuff like that then.

@Powerhaus88

Жыл бұрын

You should publish them, sir! Have them added to a historic registry maybe, New England's history is fascinating.

@johncasey1020

Жыл бұрын

New Hampshire is still a place of dark forests and among the ancient twisted trees roam monsters, serpents and the spirits of the dead.

@nhmooytis7058

Жыл бұрын

My great great grandfather who emigrated in 1870 from County Mayo was named John Patrick Moran! 😊

@nhmooytis7058

Жыл бұрын

@@johncasey1020 you think that’s bad I’m from Cleveland 😂

@TrickiVicBB71

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your contribution to this vid

Having seen The Day of Orange Sky here in the SF Bay Area in August 2021, the “big forest fire” explanation is the most plausible IMO. And yes, we could use a man like Davenport (or better yet, several) in government today.

@kirbyd

Жыл бұрын

that was a crazy day

I didn't play this until a couple of weeks later. This made for interesting timing as we just relived this event due to the widespread Canadian forest fires of June 2023.

We had a large forest fire in the Columbia Gorge a few years ago. The sun looked similar to this Thank You

Thanks THG for enlightening us on the doom and gloom and not blowing smoke at us. 😂

Watching this a second time. So interesting! Hysteria. Bravery. Duty. Faith. History that should be remembered!

@ladymacbethofmtensk896

Жыл бұрын

Back then, it was the Day of Judgement, and today it is Climate Change. Neither narrative likes perspective very much.

I live in the middle of the USA. A day or so ago, we had some seriously dim skies. There was quite a bit of cloud cover, but the dimness was obviously from smoke. You could even vaguely smell it. Someone thought we must have had a grass fire going in the area because that tends to happen here. However, I read that it was from fires up in Canada. That's a very long way away, I can only imagine how bad it must have been up there.

We endured horrible fires here in Napa County a few years back (twice between 2015 and 2017!!!). The skies were so dark and filled with suffocating smoke, my 'automatic' headlight setting in my car kept turning on the lights as the computer (along with the forward-looking camera) thought it was nighttime during daylight hours. We had to leave the county several times because the air quality was so bad. It defined eerie and conjured up images of the end of the world and with the fires raging for weeks without restraint, it felt like it. It doesn't take too much for things to go sideways and for people to get crazy as we all did during Covid-19. Sadly, it will happen again. Even now, Canada right now is offering horrific forest fires that will repeat the effects of 1780 for some regions of the north.

Abraham Davenport is the sort of politician we need.

@rhuephus

Жыл бұрын

Dead ????

@Bigrignohio

Жыл бұрын

@@rhuephus Not sure that stops them. Pretty sure Feinstein's a zombie.

@RevQuads

Жыл бұрын

He sure was no golfer!

@scottdunkirk8198

Жыл бұрын

@@RevQuads who cares if they golf as long as they lead and not mumble and stay in a basement.

@ropeburnsrussell

Жыл бұрын

They dont make them like that anymore. Politicians with honor, I mean.

The description of the red moon and darkening sun sounds a lot like what I see when there’s a major forest fire going on to the east. The only thing that was missing from the story is the smell - I can always tell there’s a fire going on by the smell of smoke in the air which tells me it’s not safe to be outdoors. Now that I think about it, two centuries ago people’s homes didn’t have very good insulation, did they?

@allanwood3562

Жыл бұрын

I've witnessed this in Australia a couple of times during intense bushfires. Truly frightening given what followed.

@DigitalDiabloUK

Жыл бұрын

Also people probably used wood to heat and cook their homes, so smoke was probably a common smell.

@cynthiawhite9830

Жыл бұрын

@@DigitalDiabloUK Good point.

@Marin3r101

Жыл бұрын

​@@DigitalDiabloUK why would you cook your home?

@origamiswami2275

Жыл бұрын

@@Marin3r101 the why doesn't matter - the simple fact is that in that time and place, if you wanted to cook your home (or even your neighbor's home), your only option would be to use a wood fire.

My Sisters and Brothers (of which I am the youngest at 58) all agree that we would like to have you as a guest at our next get-together. All 6 of us are history nerds. Normally our conversations start at food, but inevitably wind up with interesting historical events. The banter is light hearted, fun, and always factual. We study like you. You would fit right in and enjoy yourself. We would welcome a fellow history nerd like you. Hell, you even look like you could be my brother.

As we sit in Denver under a "dark day" from Canadian forest fires watching this wonderful video, I can't help but hope that more than one bloke in New England looked west that day and knowing that out there was forest as far as the eye can see, felt the wind in his face and smelled the faint whiff of ash and said to himself "Ayuh, they's a far out there somewhar's, an itsa big un."

How odd is it that I'm watching this after two days of the sun being blotted out by Canadian forest fires? It's not so bad today.

"Red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in morning, sailors take warning". The coastal sailors of New England must have been confused, perhaps terrified....

@walterdebnam8021

Жыл бұрын

It's Red Sky at night. It's about the clouds.👍

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@walterdebnam8021 , that's what happens when insomnia strikes. I'll fix it. It was a rough night.....

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@Aqua Fyre, geologist Simon Winchesters' book about Krakatoa was an excellent read.

@bforman1300

Жыл бұрын

So this is a coastal New England saying? This explains much. The saying never made sense to me, but I was raised nearer the Pacific coast.

@justjane2070

Жыл бұрын

We say shepherds delight … shepherds warning. Brought up far from the coast 😀

Just watched the video last week, and here we are again in 2023 and the New York area getting a fresh blast of Canadian smoke!

In May of 2010 there were forest fires burning in the Canadian Province of Quebec. I remember it well, as it was the Memorial Day weekend and my father had just passed away. There was a light gray haze throughout New Hampshire as a result of those fires. Just an eerie look.

A great forest fire to the west was the first thought that came to mind. The phenomenon was too regionalized to have been a volcano.

Your oratory makes listening to your channel a pleasure.

I'm here in Denver having a "dark day" from fires up in Alberta! Its odd people didn't put two and two together back in those days. Its literally just smoke. Ive experienced the blood red sun/moon and dark haze too many times here in CO the last few years, it looks like dusk all day. We had our 3 largest wildfires and single most destructive fire in state history within a two year span (20-21). Now we're on track to have the wettest spring on record. strange weather!

@michaelimbesi2314

Жыл бұрын

The issues is that forest fires are extremely rare here in the east, and forest fires large enough to inject enough smoke into the atmosphere to be visible at distances of more than a couple dozen miles basically don’t exist. They wouldn’t really have anything to compare it to.

@rodchallis8031

Жыл бұрын

I'm in London, in south western Ontario, about half way between Toronto and Detroit. We had haze and a red moon and sun last week from the Alberta fires. Where I live what's left of the forests are dominated by hardwoods, but the further north one goes, it gradually shifts to a coniferous dominated forest. If the "Algonquin" referred to in the video is the area now called "Algonquin Park", a huge forest fire would not be only possible, but periodically expected. Given that the water ways in that area were not only important to the fur trade, but the rivers being the "highways" from Montreal to the Great Lakes and beyond, I would think there would be written record of a forest fire of that size in the 1780's.

@SapphireX413

Жыл бұрын

Forest fires are extremely rare in New England so they would have no knowledge of any fires or smoke that would be causing it

@rodchallis8031

Жыл бұрын

@@SapphireX413 True. And even if the fires were noted at the time in Canada, it's likely that this news would never become associated with the May 19th event-- even if it eventually made it to New England.

@brianmorger2174

Жыл бұрын

Same here in Montana...maybe dimmer.

Great foreshadowing of recent events in New York. As soon as I saw the reports of New York being nearly blacked out by smoke from the fires in Canada I thought of this video. You should update this video and bump it back up to the top of your posts.

As much as I try to listen, I always look to see what’s on your shelves.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

Жыл бұрын

I am trying for a cabinet of curiosities.

Thank you, History Guy! I've read a fair amount of history and even taught it a few years, but you just keep surprising and delighting me with interesting history I had not heard about. Keep up the great work!

As soon as you started talking about this I surmised it was from a forest fire. Right this moment as I write in Southern CT our air quality is threatened due to particles and dense smoke from fires in Nova Scotia. Some things don’t change.

This brought to mind a Saturday at my home on the mid-Atlantic coast of the US. Everything turned a strange yellow like you sometimes hear in stories of events before a tornado. Only thing was that it was clear with no threatening weather visible. Turns out that it was the smoke plume from a forest fire in Canada. The satellite photos showed it being blown almost due south and a little to the east. No, it was not overly dark, just strangely lighted.

@ladymacbethofmtensk896

Жыл бұрын

I wager Joseph Turner is not too happy about being dead now.

I've been living through this exact same thing right now, as have many other people in various parts of North America, and other parts of the world as well, though the smoke described in these accounts sounds worse than what I'm currently experiencing in Alberta. However, some areas may actually have it just as bad as they had it back in New England in 1780.

Ahh we are living through this right now in Wisconsin. The give away was the red sun in the am and red sun at sunset along with the obscured sun most of the day. Fires in Canada has made for a couple weeks of very bad air in our area. Great story.

I’ve been to Algonquin many times & didn’t know this! Thank you, THG!

Yesterday, 300 miles south of the Canadian border, we were down to 1 mile visibility because of smoke from the fires north of the border.

@edwardfletcher7790

Жыл бұрын

1 mile is plenty, don't be greedy 😜

@mikemaricle9941

Жыл бұрын

@@edwardfletcher7790 It looked like LA 1970.

@edwardfletcher7790

Жыл бұрын

@@mikemaricle9941 I'm in Australia, if you want to see some crazy 💩, search for our "driving in a bushfire" videos 😕

My first thought was fire. A couple years ago there were fires in BC Canada and here in the Pacific Northwest we had very dark red skys for a week or two. Unlike in 1780 we had the news to tell us what was going on.

Presently, we are having a huge cloud of smoke here in Connecticut just like they had in 1780. There are over 400 huge forest fires in Canada and the huge smoke clouds have gone South and we have an incredible about of smoke. Looks like History does repeat itself.

We had a few days like that here in San Francisco on 2020Sep09. I have a photo taken midday, although I couldn't past it into the comment. The sky was red, caused by smoke from surrounding wildfires being sucked in over our city. We live in modern times, with science and meteorologists. I can only imagine the panic if it was the 18th century.

@AveryMilieu

Жыл бұрын

It was like that in Humboldt, too. Ash on cars and plants, air unsafe to breathe and way too close for comfort...

@vascoribeiro69

Жыл бұрын

The panic in the 18th century? Do you watch the news?!😂

@DawnDavidson

Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say, sounds like 9/9/2020, the height of the fires in Nor Cal, when everything was dark and “apocalyptic orange.” I’ve seen red moons during fire season several times. Lots of smoke and ash in the air would cause this … especially if there was also an eclipse at the same time, but that’s just me speculating. :)

I was in high school when this happened. We had to use candles just to find our way to the chamber pot in the center of our one room cabin.

Awesome episode!!!

How timely this came today, as we have been dealing with smog from Canadian wildfires the last three days!

What a fun idea!! I would love to join THG and group on a learning adventure!

Can you say IRONY??? Two weeks after this video it happened again! I am so loving this!

It is a fun idea and i hope The History Guy comes to boring ol' Iowa at some point to check out what history has been forgotten here!

Amazed you haven't done The Walking Purchase yet.. or at least one that I have found. Would love to see you do that event one day, as that I feel it is one of the most, needs to be remembered, moments in history. Yet many people give me blank stares whenever I mention it. I live and grew up along it's path, so I think that is what sparked my fascination with history at a young age as I was able to realize what I learned in history class in school actually was real and it's effects were all around us.

@throne1797

Жыл бұрын

@BSCHULER What is the Walking Purpose?

@bschuler

Жыл бұрын

@@throne1797 The Walking Purchase, not Walking Purpose. I hesitate to even begin to explain it here as it is very complicated and remains even somewhat controversial today. But it was a scam deal devised and used to steal land from the Indians living in the eastern part of what is now Pennsylvania.The children of late colonist William Penn claimed their father had signed a deal with the local indian tribe before his death that they now wanted to carry out. It was called The Walking Purchase, because the fake forged deal, was a land purchase that would be based on how far a man can walk in 3 days. After the walk was done, the scammed Indians realized it was a scam right away, but our judicial system wasn't at all fair at the time, and thus did nothing to help the Indians. Since then, using modern technological advances, the evidence has been conclusive that the scam was a total scam. Even the supposed deal was a fake forgery. But before modern science, people back then knew it was a scam as one just needs to look at the original Walking Purchase map to see the first scam. They were to draw a straight line to the Delaware River as their northern border.. but instead of going the shortest straight line route to the river as they were supposed to, they drew a line along the longest path they could to the river to make the purchased land larger. Anyway, I just find it amazing as I live along the walking path itself and I think it is also an amazing story and example of one way arriving colonists stole the Indians land. I find the way the Indians were treated by the court system the most interesting these days. But overall, I just find every part of this historic Walking Purchase story very interesting and compelling.

@aaronsmith5433

Жыл бұрын

The Walking Purchase exemplifies how all subsequent deeds are "fatality flawed" & mute🔕

@ElleCee62978

Жыл бұрын

@@bschuler didn’t they also find one of the best colonial runners to grab as much land as possible?

@bschuler

Жыл бұрын

@@ElleCee62978 Yes they did. I omitted it as I was just trying to be concise. But growing up along it's path, that is what used to fascinate me when I was a child. I was amazed at the distance he was able to travel over rivers, creeks, hills, valleys, etc. in the time allowed. Nowadays, the legal process afterwards is what fascinates me. I am sort of amazed nobody ever made a Hollywood movie out of the Walking Purchase, as it is a fascinating tale and many people don't know about it. But I guess the movie target audience would be very limited and it is a somewhat controversial subject.

Thanks for another great presentation.

I appreciate you, thank you for making content.

Here in Massachusetts we still remember it, that and a few other storms left huge impacts on our state.

We visited California in 2003 during the fires fed by the Santa Anna winds. There was constant Ash in the air and the sky was always dark like a really cloudy day.

As a child I remember reading about this from a book called Strangely Enough by C. B. Colby. 1780 we had not yet won our independence from Great Britain that came in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. This event has always intrigued me

I immediately thought of a volcanic eruption. Krakatoa had the same effects and some lasted 2 or 3 years.

@ladymacbethofmtensk896

Жыл бұрын

And then there is the possibility that same Krakatoa made 536 c.e. the "worst year in history."

Massachusetts, born and raised (20 minutes outside Boston). This was really interesting!

It is strange that I should watch this episode today, 19 May 2023 b/c today here in Colorado we experienced a very dark day (Denver was the 2nd city that had a very dark day from forest fires in Canada). Smoke from those fires came down here to Colorado & it was not a pleasant day today. Not as dark as your history lesson but dark it was. :) ps. that is 243 yrs ago today.

It is interesting that this video appeared in my suggested videos today. The Canadian fires of June 2023 are causing very dark weather in New England and even down into Virginia?

It's happening again. I live in New York and the sun was barely there because of the Canadian fires.😮

Way to go History Guy😊 Thanks for your dedicated work and the history lesson.❤😊

We had a day like this in Maine last week. Yellow hue during the day. Forest fires in Canada.

Just another summer in Alaska. We have forest fires every summer in Alaska. Some fires grow as large as small lower 48 States. Sometimes you can smell the wood smoke, sometimes not so much. A fire can burn hundreds of miles away and blot out the Sun, or turn it Red for days at a time. With nearly 22 hours of daylight late June where I grew up in Fairbanks, we hardly saw the moon on a clear day mid summer. Never Never Lake, Alaska

@rhuephus

Жыл бұрын

"fires grow as large as the lower 48 states" ?? That would an area greater than the state of Alaska

@GoBlueGirl78

Жыл бұрын

@@rhuephus He said “as large as *small* lower 48 states” as in a fire the size of RI, for example.

@michaelmccotter4293

Жыл бұрын

@@rhuephus You might want to read my post again. You have misread my post.

@michaelmccotter4293

Жыл бұрын

@@GoBlueGirl78 Thank you Amanda. Lovely name.

Lol! My first thought was a volcano. The changed to a forest fire conflagration off in the North West because it was prolonged. I'm a retired firefighter that was a forestry (wildland) firefighter (for only one season, part time).

@MountainFisher

Жыл бұрын

I was too back in the 1970s for a summer fighting a fire that wouldn't go out near Big Sur, CA. Pay was $2.35 for state land and $7 something for federal land. Big suspicion fell on some out of state/in-state firefighters re-starting the fires for very good pay.

Regarding this day, I've read before of Davenport's rationale for remaining in assembly. Very sensible and calm!

That connection to the Shakers is fascinating! My 6th great grandfather had a nephew and three nieces who joined the Shakers in Alfred, Maine some 25 years after the Dark Day. They were all born after it, but probably heard about it throughout their childhoods.

Wildfires in Canada. Same as today, June 8, 2023, with wildfires in Canada blotting out the sun in New York City.

Talk about timing. The one about hail the day after they had to plow 5 inches of hail off the highway between Haigler, Nebraska and Wray, Colorado. Show about a forest fire darkening the northeast, the day after smoke from Canadian fires extended across Kansas.

I'd love to introduce you to the endless skiens of social and cultural tradition run through the small village I grew up in. It has a Hollywood conection, two in fact. 😐 place called Rottingdean.

Thanks for the video John, I found it very interesting, Stay Safe Mate.

Love your show

Thank you for this documentary. I really enjoyed it.

Great presentation and explanation. Thank you.

Great Episode again THG. It's understandable the huge but unknown Canada fire. (Shades of Mt St Helens eruption & ash darkness coast to coast) Despite this natural cause, yet it's always healthy to recall that Judgement Day is each day when we choose to go out own way, or God's Way. May the two be the same !

Question: How about we organize a gathering for the historical April 8th, 2024 "X" marks the spot crossing of the solar Eclipses near Cape Girardeau, Missouri. With any luck, we can observe the Mississippi River flow backwards as the New Madrid fault makes a solar induced cameo appearance.

Thanks, as always.

I live in Southeastern Massachusetts and our skies haven't been blue for a week due to 🔥 fires in Western Canada. Today's the first blue sky day in a while.

Thank you for your work!

Connecticut State Library used to get many questions on the Dark Day. CT State Archives has resources like original documents of General Assembly.

@ajnormandgroome

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If you travel to Connecticut let me know! State Library has a Hiking Through History program

These stories are awesome. Great work!

I LOVE the idea of joining a history guy trip!!! Would likely not join though due to limitations.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

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Wait to see what options we come up with- our goal is to be both affordable and accessible.

@Seeker0fTruth

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Visiting any historic location with an excellent teacher is the best way to truly learn about its history…to truly understand and make meaningful connections helps any curious student retain their learnings. I would love to join you on any such trip! Will look forward to any announcements!

Field trips with The History Guy!! What fun

NYC had our Dark Day 06/07/23. Same conditions

This exact scenario is happening now (Pennsylvania) secondary to wildfires in Nova Scotia and primarily the same on a larger scale the wildfires in Québec

Thank you for this effort

I want you to tell me wild history about people and places along the Mississippi River, while we cruise down it on a Pattleboat. You dressed as Mark Twain. With a live band to play the music of each era we pass thru. Yes costumes as well. 😊

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

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LOL- I'll see if I can set that up.

September 9, 2020 was a day to remember in San Francisco and much of the west coast. Heavy wildfire smoke rendered the sky an eerie reddish black for nearly the entire day, lightening up later in the afternoon. Air quality at ground level that day was surprisingly not terrible that day, as the smoke was higher up. The terrible ground level air quality would come the next day, as my photos of shining a flashlight beam up into the night sky on September 10th illustrate.

Reminds me of our area of Arizona back in spring 2011 when we had a MAJOR forest fire in the mountains nearby.

Good morning from Connecticut, fellow History students! Hey there Mr. Fort Worth and Sin City! Enjoy today’s lesson!

@DeconvertedMan

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^_^

Thank you

I didn't know Danny DeVito was a Shaker!

last year was the worst in some years for forest fires, here in the sunny okanagan

Good timing

Wildfire smoke from Alberta cloaked the Lower 48 this week.

Release a video on the exact date AND day of the week as the historic event? BRILLIANT!

Extraordinary images were chosen to accompany the narrative here, adding depth to the richness of this episode of THG. Mentioned in the info section as "public domain images", I would enjoy downloading a few of them if I were able to identify them someway, I have never seen any of them before this. Well done, as always, THG. This YT channel is a gem. Cheers.

@lizj5740

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Stop the video at an image you like, use Print Screen, then paste the image into a Microsoft Word (or similar) program. Crop off the irrelevant bits, and increase or decrease the size of the image at your pleasure.

@rickkearn7100

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@@lizj5740 Thanks! Very thoughtful of you. :)

@lizj5740

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@@rickkearn7100 You're welcome.

I love history and I love your channel.

Interesting that your topic is something that you may be about to experience in the midwest. Wild fires in Alberta and Saskatchewan are inside of a heat dome that will push the smoke towards your region as the jet stream pushes the system across North America. I hope it does not get as dark as this historical note describes, we don't want that level of burning so as to cause that thick a smoke.

Thank you, History Guy, for the heads up on the Canadian forest fires and there possible impact on the States. I remember the acid rain we used to get from Canada in the 1960's and 1970's and it's effect on the environment, tainting everything yellow/orange and damaging the foliage, lakes/rivers.

Thanks for this bit of history. Another interesting Moon story is the Canterbury monks' description in 1178 of a possible lunar crater event (Bruno Crater?). Also, the 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm would be another interesting subject. I have early Virginia ancestors who were shocked into Methodism after that event! Their descriptions were recorded in the family bible. Our wildfires in Santa Cruz in 2020 made it dark as night at 3PM. At that point the smoke was high enough it was not significantly affecting the air quality but blocking all light from above.

I wonder, then, if New Englanders experienced similar after effects because of the great fires around Lake Michigan in 1871.

Just a couple of weeks, and you would've been describing New York in the present day. That must've been an enormous fire to have so darkened the skies.