Plenty of Nothing

Tire Tracks

Snow (1963)

Enjoy this wintry train film from 1963.

Snowball Fight, 1896

A short film of a snowball fight, dated 1896. 

Snowshoeing by Moonlight

Snowshoeing by Moonlight by J.E.H. MacDonald, 1910.

Citadel Snow

Vasaloppet

Today is Vasaloppet, the annual 90 kg cross-country ski race between Sälen and Mora in Dalarna, Sweden. It commemorates a legendary escape made on skis by the future King Gustav I in 1520. When you win the Vasaloppet a local young person in folk costume chases you down the home stretch and plays ring toss with a large wreath and your head. Or tries!

Melt

Berries

Helen Creighton Snowshoeing

Collecting folklore is a year-round job. From the collection of the Nova Scotia Archives.

Four Snowball Fights

 

 

1. Napoleon is credited with bringing modern military science to the snowball fight. 2 and 3. One of the attractions of the Boy Scout movement is freedom from your mother telling you to dress warmly. 4. The women of Smith College will not be denied. (Their mothers, too, are absent.)