Bethel, Maine
1913.
Nov. 15 - 22

Exceptionally mild conditions

  Reached Bethel on the afternoon of he 15th [November 15, 1913] and spent one
week there, returning to Boston on the 22nd [November 22, 1913]. Found the conditions
there and between there and Boston almost precisely as I had left
them in Concord and Cambridge. There was - and had been - no
snow whatever even on the top of the higher mountains. The
grass over the village lawns was still vividly green and dotted here
and there with dandelion blossoms. The surface of the ground was
hard frozen & some of the swollen ponds encased in thin ice
on the 16th [November 16, 1913] and 17th [November 17, 1913]. After that it turned warm and humid at
night and day. On the 20th [November 20, 1913] our temp went to 62 [degrees] Fahr. [Fahrenheit] On the
22nd [November 22, 1913] I saw cattle and sheep grazing in the pastures and farmers
ploughing their fields all the way from Bethel to Portland.
A young man on the train who had come that morning
from Fabian's reported the same conditions in the
heart of the White Mountains with no frost or
snow anywhere.