The Mayflower dropped anchor in the cold waters off Plymouth in the final weeks of 1620, and what greeted the Pilgrims was not promise — it was silence. Frozen ground. Bare trees etched black against a white sky. A winter so severe that by spring, half of those who had crossed the Atlantic were gone.
These stones remember that winter.
Each piece of The First Winter is a naturally formed dendritic quartz — milky white, river-smoothed, marked by ancient black dendrite inclusions that branch and spread like the bare trees of a New England January. No two are alike. Each pattern was shaped by tide and time, long before the first sail appeared on the horizon.
Hold one and you hold something older than the colony, older than the crossing — a piece of the land itself, unchanged.
What you receive: A hand-selected set of dendritic quartz stones (2.1 lbs), each chosen for the clarity of its dendrite markings and the weight of its presence. No two are alike — every stone in your collection carries their own stories of the winters they endured, survived and arrived - on the shores of America's Hometown - ready to remind you that "We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope." Romans 5:3-4
