"snow day" superstitions

[Barbara Need]

At 07:07 -0800 03/3/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Also, what's the earliest date fro "snow day" ?  This seems to me to
>be from the ''80s - not that I ever took notes on it.

1980s? No, it is certainly earlier than that! I got snow days in
Andover, MA in the 70s. Five were built into the school year, so if
we didn't have any, we ended school a week earlier than planned.

Barbara