The famous Dark Day of New England, May 19, 1780, was a physical puzzle for many years to our ancestors, but its occurrence brought something more than philosophical speculation into the minds of those who passed through it. The incident of Colonel Abraham Davenport's sturdy protest is a matter of history.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The famous Dark Day of New England, May 19, 1780, was a physical puzzle for many years to our ancestors, but its occurrence brought something more than philosophical speculation into the minds of those who passed through it. The incident of Colonel Abraham Davenport's sturdy protest is a matter of history." in the context of "Whittier's preface to the poem in The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (1873)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.