Some Christmas trees are average beauty at best but not ours during Christmas ‘82: a majestic blue spruce pine, the queen of all Christmas memories. — Part One: A Discovery Small-town New England ahead of winter offered months of cold-weather things to look forward to: skiing, sledding, afternoon pond hockey games down the road, shoveling the goddamn driveway, ice storms knocking down powerlines, frozen wells — all the wintertime stuff you can shove into around five months.