Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1880

pg 514                                      1843

                  Towards the end of the extraordinary winter of 1842-1843, on 
             the 15th of March, a remarkable event happened in the mission of 
             St. Mary's of the Lakes, which alone was more than enough to 
             console our new missionaries in the little trials unavoidably 
             imposed upon them by the rigor of the season and its unprecedented 
             duration, (the snow covering the ground for full five months, with 
             the exception of two days) two serious causes of the sufferings of 
             the country at large, but particularly for our new comers, whose 
             arrival at South Bend had been preceded by a heavy fall of snow, 
             ten days before, and who found in their long wished for new 
             quarters no preparation whatever but an old log cabin completely 
             abandoned since three years, without any furniture except a bed 
             and three chairs.
                  For three days they went to town in the evening and returned