11/30 Tues. Newsletter Challenge: Cold Cash Crop: ICE
In the 1930s when my mom was a little girl, her dad (my grandpa) would do construction work in the summer, but in the winter, he did a number of jobs: lumberjack, snow plow driver or ice harvester. Once the ice was at least a foot thick, a crew of men harvested ice from the lake in their hometown. Mom described how they would cut long rectangular blocks of ice from the lake using long saws. Saws of that length were often two-person saws used for felling trees, so the joke was who was going to be on the end of the saw in the water. The long blocks of ice were then shaped into smaller blocks that would fit into ice boxes. Then they were moved from the middle of the lake to the shore using a long conveyer belt of rollers. Finally, the ice was shipped out by rail. Butterfly Dsign: Winter’s Freeze Collection, Winter’s Freeze Solid Papers; Carol W Designs: Winter Wonderland Page Kit (snowflake overlay); Photos from Wikimedia Commons
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