This week in Rachel & Co. history…

The week of April 12th, 1896 - It was unseasonably warm throughout the Northeastern US, hitting 84 degrees in Boston. ALT (source: The Boston Evening Transcript, April 14, 1896.) Rachel wrote her cousin Will that she and her fellow students at Dana Hall School (outside of Boston) had been wearing summer clothing all week. Presumably, as most young women would not have had their summer wardrobe…