From: forest markowitz Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:02:17 -0500 Subject: I was 16 and interested in astronomy. I lived in suburban New Jersey. In 1963 the Perseus shower was exceptionally good as the weather was quite cool and clear so I was really looking forward to the 1966 shower. Well, the night was cloudy as it had rained all day. The local 11 pm news on TV had radar and reported that the sky was clear south of New York City over the New Jersey coast. A friend of mine who was old enough to drive convinced his father to let us take the family 1959 Plymouth to a dark location along the Jersey Shore. We settled for a farmers corn field in Holmdel, New Jersey, away from the city lights. Sure enough the sky was fair with some haze, not good but acceptable for all the effort. We were all set by 1:30am when two things happened; the local police came by to see what we were doing and then the clouds began to thicken. While the police cooperated Mother Nature didn't and we were clouded out by 2am. We called it quits at 5:00 without seeing a single meteor!On the drive back it began to rain!