Does the library’s new home page image with its softly falling flakes have you dreaming of snow? Then check out more snowy photos in our “Furman University Historical Images” digital collection.
Photos date from the 1940s through the late 1980s and show idyllic wintry campus scenes. Several of the photos are dated 1982 and show heavy snowfall, frozen fountains, and even a partially frozen lake! This winter storm, which occurred January 13th – 14th of 1982, was described in terms of the “Yukon” by a Furman Paladin news article.
The front-page story of the Greenville News on January 14th was titled “Storm hits Upstate with icy fury” and began with: “A bitter winter storm virtually shut down cities and towns across the Upstate Wednesday, blanketing the area with some three inches of snow and ice, with another four inches of frozen precipitation in the Thursday forecast.”
This year, experts are predicting a colder winter and a higher chance of snow for the southeastern United States, so we may seem some of the coveted white stuff. Let’s just hope it isn’t quite as bad as the winter storm of ’82!