Snowy days often evoke memories in Alzheimer’s patients and they’ll relate experiences and adventures from their childhood and yours. My mom frequently repeated my grandfather’s stories about living through the Blizzard of 1888. No, she wasn’t living then. But my grandfather’s memories were so vivid that they became part of our family lore. These stories also fascinated me as a child, as Grandpa told them and then later my parents did.
If you’d like to learn more about this period in our history, check out my page, Books About the Blizzards of 1888 & Other Storms. (There also was an earlier severe blizzard in the West in 1888.)