{"product_id":"the-first-winter","title":"The First Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey arrived in November.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eMayflower\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stones remember that winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach piece of \u003cstrong\u003eThe First Winter\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHold one and you hold something older than the colony, older than the crossing — a piece of the land itself, unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you receive:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom New England. For keeps.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New England Nova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44899258204205,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4276\/9453\/files\/bw.jpg?v=1777719182","url":"https:\/\/newenglandnova.shop\/products\/the-first-winter","provider":"New England Nova","version":"1.0","type":"link"}