Hot Time in the Old Town

Kohn, Edward P. (2010). Hot time in the old town: the great heat wave of 1896 and the making of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Basic Books.

Byron Collection/Museum of the City of New York
COOLING OFF At Coney Island in the summer of 1896.

Weather man

Piece of crap. Doesn't work. A waste of time. Michael Caine is miscast. Nicolas Cage is two-dimensional, and can not rescue a role fated to fail from failing.

Blame it on the rain

Blame it on the rain : how the weather has shaped history and changed culture / Laura Lee.

Seemed a good idea, and was, but got repetitive.