Just because winter has arrived doesn’t mean the adventure has to end! Bundle up in your favorite coat, throw on a cozy hat, and step outside to embrace the season’s magic. Whether you’re craving a scenic walk, eager to glide on the ice, ready to hit the ski trails, or excited to uncover Concord’s rich history with one of our enthusiastic tour guides, there’s a fresh adventure waiting just for you
“There is snow in yonder cold gray sky of the morning! And, through the partially frosted window-panes, I love to watch the gradual beginning of the storm.” So writes Nathaniel Hawthorne in his sketch “Snowflakes,” one of many where the author takes his readers into the winter season. First published in 1838 and collected in the second volume of his Twice-Told Tales in 1842, the sketch describes everything from a winter storm (“reverently welcomed by me, her true-born son, be New England’s winter”) to a children’s snowball fight (“What pitched battles worthy to be chanted in Homeric strains!”) to the gloom of a winter burial (“Oh how dreary is a burial in winter, when the bosom of Mother Earth has no warmth for her poor child!”). No matter the season, it seems, Hawthorne’s thoughts were never too far from the grave.
