Summer Solstice: Summer Solstice: Heat Wave Marks First Day of Summer

For viewers who like to look for strange events that occur in conjunction with astronomical events, nothing could be an odder event on the 2012 Summer SolsticeIt all begins today. In the Lansing area, summer is an explosion of free music festivals — jazz, blues, and folk, plus assorted smaller concerts in parksRain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly soggy summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday: With stoicism and wit. But through the wind and rain, drummers inside

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