Yankee Weather Proverbs

It’s a well-known fact that New England weather changes every five minutes. What most people don’t know, however, is how to plan these changes without the aid of an often-wrong weatherman. What if you could read and predict the weather yourself? Your grandparents and great-grandparents could do it – why not you?

Yankee Weather Proverbs is a collection of some of the best and most reliable weather predictors there are. Common sense, awareness of the landscape, and memorable rhymes are all you need to predict the weather – the same way generations of Yankees have done it. Couple that with gorgeous depictions of the Yankee landscape, and you’ve got a classic book of timeless resources and pleasures.

More than 125 proverbs and 35 color illustrations by Vermont artist Daryl V. Storrs are contained in this pocket-sized compendium. It’s a great gift, a trustworthy travel companion, and an indispensable book for Yankees and non-Yankees alike.

Peter Miller, Editor

Peter Miller has been writing about and photographing people of rural communities for more than 50 years. He is the award-winning author/photographer of numerous books including People of the Great Plains, The 30,000 Mile Ski Race, The Photographer’s Almanac, The Skier’s Almanac, and The First Time I Saw Paris. He is best known in the Northeast for his books Vermont People – considered a regional classic – and its sister volume Vermont Farm Women. His writing has appeared in LIFE magazine, Ski Magazine, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Smithsonian. Currently, he focuses his writing on issues of local land development and regional culture.

Daryl V. Storrs, Illustrator

Daryl Storrs is an artist based in Huntington, Vermont. She creates hand-printed, hand-painted lithographic prints (like those featured in Yankee Weather Proverbs), hand-painted jewelry, and large format pastel paintings. Her use of color is vibrant and arresting, and her inspiration comes from the Vermont landscape.

Daryl holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has also studied with celebrated Vermont artist Sabra Field, and has taught figure drawing, relief printmaking, typography, and monoprinting at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.Yankee Weather Proverbs is her first book project.