The story behind the first snowman

Author: dessi  /  Category: Seasonal, Who invented ...?

Check HERE for snowman Christmas tree ornaments

snowman2

If you look in the net for the first snowman, you will find different opinions, from certain inventor to giving credit to no one, but just another humankind achievement. Here is a certain story, you will decide whether to believe it or not. The first snowman was made on January, the 7th, 1809 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The man who “wins” the snowman inventor contest is Vernon N. Paul and his 9 years old daughter – Yetty. He told her that man of snow will guard her presents from the Boxing Day elves (they are believed to reclaim Christmas presents). Yetty spread out the story among the other children in town and soon I front of every house there was a guard – a snowman.

Not a long after that the reporter Hillary Sherpa from NY Times came to this part of America to check that popular already story.

Leave a Reply