Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a rainy day with a high temperature of forty-four degrees.
This afternoon, from 4 to 6 p.m., there will be a listening session on a charter schools program at the Cravath Lakefront Center. Earlier, at 3:15 p.m., there will be a PTO meeting at Lincoln School. At 6:30 p.m., there will be a P.A.T.T meeting at Washington School.
In history on this date, in 1862, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia fought to a draw off the Virginia coast, near Hampton Roads. The New York Times reported thereafter on the clash:
Fortress Monroe, Saturday, March 8 – The dullness of Old Point was startled today by the announcement that a suspicious looking vessel, supposed to be the Merrimac, looking like a submerged house, with the roof only above water, was mowing down from Norfolk by the channel in front of the Sowel’s Point batteries. Signal guns were also fired by the Cumberland and Congress, to notify the Minnesota, St. Lawrence and Roanoke of the approaching danger, and all was excitement in and about Fortress Monroe….
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