‘Open winter’ frustrates fishermen

I wonder what Leelanauts were saying about the weather in 1905?

That’s the year of the “open winter,” as described by folks on Drummond Island, anyway. Betsey Price of Lake Leelanau was born and raised on the island, and heard about the weather phenomena that must have seemed totally out of place in an era still clinging to the Little Ice Age.

The winter of 1905 was accompanied by little snow, and broke far earlier than normal, according to one website.