Chrysti The Wordsmith: Indian Summer - 2

Welcome to hundreds of American writers have described the Beautiful North American summer that fortnight logical mildness before the arrival of winter historical accounts offer conflicting clues about the origin of Indian summer New England clergyman James Freeman writing in 1812 asserted the expression came from a native belief that the god tend to wit a benevolent wind out of the southwest. Every autumn Indian summer. Another possibility appeared in a correspondence in the Philadelphia national intelligence or on Thursday November 26 1857. It said the short season of pleasant weather occurring about the middle of November is called the Indian summer from the custom of the Indians to avail themselves of this delightful time for harvesting their corn and the tradition that they were accustomed to say that they always had a second summer of nine days just before the winter. It is a genial time. The sky is filled with a haze of orange and gold

intercepting the direct rays of the sun yet passing enough light and heat to prevent chill and the necessary fires. Give cheerful forecast of asocial winter evenings near at hand. This account hints that the expression may have been inspired by a proverb or a logical observation. Next time to the wordsmith another theory on the derivation of.