Cold Easter

Easter was on April 5th in 1874. In its April 11, 1874 issue Harper’s Weekly observed the holiday like this:

Arbutus: Spring’s offering for Easter-tide

Happy Easter!

Alice Arnold Crawford “was a 19th-century American author of poetry and short stories. She furnished articles in prose and verse for the leading publications of the day.” She died in September 1874 at the age of 24. She was born and buried in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. After her death A Few Thought For A Few Friends was published. It includes “The Forest Easter” and an ode to the “Arbutus.” The book is available at the Internet Archive

You can see the April 11, 1874 issue of Harper’s Weekly at HathiTrust.