https://i.stack.imgur.com/O8dyW.jpg (Snowman with charred backside in a 14th-century Book of Hours (via Koninklijke Bibliotheek) Ever wondered where the idea for a snowman came from? Who rolled up the first snowball and stacked them together? We may never know that, but according to folk lore and history the first image of a snowman was recorded in a fourteenth century illuminated manuscript in the Book of Hours,(Koninklijke Bibliotheek)from The Hague, Netherlands. During the Middle Ages there are written stories of winter time festivities such as in one severe winter in Brussels called the Miracle of fifteen-eleven. Town folk were united through the building of snowman, the streets were lined with all sorts of snowballs decorated and displayed n all manners and costume. It was a tactic to help the small community come together and help themselves to endure the frosty winter and survive. Here in the United States the snowman is associated wi...