History of the Snowman

War and snowmen have been linked since before the American Revolution. The snowman played a role in French Revolution of 1871 (the Paris Commune) and the Schenectady Massacre of 1690, one of the bloodiest events in early American history.

It doesn’t make a difference which country or cause, if it snowed, snowmen would show up amid conflict. The reasons for this weird association between snowman-making and violence -- a couple of man’s favorite all-time activities -- is unclear other than to say that the snowman holds a common appeal across ideologies and borders. When you put young men in a snowstorm, there is bound to be a snowball or two -- remember that wayward snowball that triggered the Boston Massacre? And as any snowman expert will tell you, where there’s snowballs, there’s snowmen.

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