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Celebrate Winter: Outdoor Adventures Await!

December 14, 2023
Jennifer C. Schünemann
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You may have heard the old expression, “there’s no such thing as bad weather, just a bad choice of clothing.” Winter is a fantastic time to explore all that Concord has to offer. So, bundle up, grab a friend, and let the adventure begin!


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Winter Evenings Glow in Concord

December 15, 2022
Cindy Atoji Keene
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There’s a joke that goes: “What are the four seasons in New England? Winter, still winter, and three months of bad sledding.” Any shrewd Yankee – or wise visitor – chuckles at this saying but knows it just ain’t true. Rather, winter in the northeast is a wonderland of opportunity. As the sage Henry David Thoreau observed, “a healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.” And in Concord, where Thoreau tread across snowy dells and meadows blanketed in white, hearts are “warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.”


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Outdoor Winter Fun

December 15, 2021
David Rosenbaum
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In the late nineteenth century, Currier and Ives made beautiful and iconic engravings of New England winter scenes. They depicted gleeful children sledding, or skating on frozen ponds, surrounded by a snowy landscape. Fast forward 150 years or so, and you can still do those things, and more, in Concord during the winter. Let’s look at how you can have your own Currier and Ives adventure in Concord, with all the rich winter sports opportunities we have today!


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