12/21/10 looking up!

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"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.

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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!!