mountain-drifts

Updated: May 22, 2025

In its stead appears a wintry waste of snow, with the sun just peeping over it, cold and bright, and tingeing the white expanse with the faintest and most ethereal rose-color. This is the Great Snow of 1717, famous for the mountain-drifts in which it buried the whole country.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Main Street: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")