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...record-breaking snowstorm strikes the Northeast, dumping a record 25.8 inches of snow on New York City and causing nearly 80 deaths in North Atlantic states...
...another day during her break, Timothyrecalled, "We had a pretty big snowstorm, but ourfather has a four wheel drive vehicle and she madehim take...
There was even a storybook snowstorm tale...
...most illuminating and eloquent is Tobias Wolff's explication of his short story "Powder"--which centers on a father and son's attempts at making their way home for Christmas Eve in the midst of a snowstorm. The urgency of memory, the need to mediate all the past's heart-break and humor, infuses Wolff's story with dead-pan beauty. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver's classic "Popular Mechanics" (minus the bloody conclusion) in terms of its powerful brevity, "Powder" is the best work included in the anthology...
Young also describes a ghost that frequents Holden Chapel every year "around the first snowstorm." Young recalls that "her name is Pickham--a woman who was riding with her fiance in a sleigh through the Square when their horse slipped on the ice and their sleigh flipped over. Her fiance broke his neck and died in her arms. He was buried in the basement of Christ Church, but when she returned to visit the grave, the body had been dug up and stolen. In those days, if often happened that internists would dig up bodies to dissect. The young lady...