Indeed! During our early 90s snow drought I went to the college library and went through the NY Times microfiche collection for that very reason. I picked winter 1966-67 to "relive" (or rather, experience for the first time, since my first weather memory is from the early 80s lol) to see what a prolonged snowy winter was actually like. I loved reading their forecasts, seeing their maps and pictures and seeing their stories of cold and snow, which to that point I had never experienced. All I had were the Blizzard of April 1982 and February 1983 which I also loved to read about during our long snow drought.
Then for the first time I remember getting excited for snow in 1993, because the summer and fall temp patterns seemed to mimic 1966, and I thought a big winter might be oncoming, so I started keeping a weather journal for the first time in my life.