12/21/10 looking up!

"HOPING YOU ALL FLOURISH AND ARE WELL AND HAVING GREAT TIMES" Will Holst

Nights start getting shorter at exactly 23:38 UTC

Also,on this date between 10:30 and 2AM EST a lunar eclipse is scheduled throughout the land.
Last eclipse on a winter solstice was in 1638.
Nothing much else happened in 1638
except the first witch seems to have been tracked down in New England that year.

Hats off to the scheduler - unfortunately, the clouds are not cooperating here in Maine, so we'll have to pretend to howl at the blood-red moon tonight.

Happy Winter Solstice / full Lunar Eclipse everyone!!