{"id":714,"date":"2021-10-09T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2021-10-08T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:49:21","slug":"what-is-indian-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/what-is-indian-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Indian Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is Indian Summer?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

It’s the first half of October here at The Storage Inn<\/a> in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, and the place is jumping! This probably has something to do with the unusually warm weather we’ve been experiencing?!<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of our customers, Damon, strode into our\u00a0storage supplies store<\/a> and proclaimed, \u201cOctober, and it’s actually hot outside!\u201d \u00a0to which I replied,\u00a0<\/span>\u201d Indian Summer!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Damon, who also happens to be a school teacher, told me that I was, in fact, incorrect, and that Indian Summer only occurs after the first frost of the year. \u201cStill hot though!\u201d he exclaimed as he walked out of the office and back towards his storage space<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hmmmm – I wondered if he was actually correct about the frost thing, so I checked it out, and found some interesting facts about \u201cIndian Summer\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indian summer is defined as a period of unseasonably warm, dry and calm weather, usually following a period of colder weather or frost in late Autumn.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Origin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indian summer was first recorded in Letters From an American Farmer, in a 1778 work by the French-American soldier turned farmer, J. H. St. John de Cr\u00e8vecoeur. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many references to the term in American literature to refer to any late flowering following a period of decline. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of “The Indian Summer of the Heart”, and Oliver Wendell Holmes mentions “an Indian summer of serene widowhood” in his story The Guardian Angel.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Why \u201cIndian\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The English already had names for this phenomenon including St. Luke\u2019s Summer, St. Martin\u2019s Summer or All-Hallows Summer, but eventually these terms disappeared and were replaced by indian summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why Indian? Well, no one knows but, as is commonplace when no one knows, many people have guessed. Here are three of the more commonly repeated guesses…<\/span>
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\n<\/span>When European settlers first came across the phenomenon in America it became known as the <\/span>Indian’s<\/span> Summer as \"\"Native American tribes would wait for a warm spell in the autumn to harvest their crops including pumpkins, gourds, and fall vegetables.<\/span><\/p>\n

It originated from raids on European settlements by Indian war parties, which usually ended in late autumn, after \u201cIndian Summer\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>Native Americans were considered untrustworthy by many white settlers, spawning terms such as \u201cIndian giver\u201d. The aforementioned late-summer heat was considered a \u201cfalse summer\u201d, thus the term \u201cIndian\u201d summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, who knows if any of these theories are correct? What I do know is that both the staff, and our self-storage<\/a> customers here at The Storage Inn<\/a> will be enjoying the warm days ahead! I think I’ll spend a couple next week in shorts and flip-flops, turn the ball game on the radio, sit on my back deck and have a cold beer – Indian Summer Rules!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Indian Summer? It’s the first half of October here at The Storage Inn in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, and the place is jumping! This probably has something to do with the unusually warm weather we’ve been experiencing?! One of our customers, Damon, strode into our\u00a0storage supplies store and proclaimed, \u201cOctober, and it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-fun-facts","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-storage-inn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}