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11/30 Tues. Newsletter Challenge: Cold Cash Crop: ICE
 
© Sue Maravelas

11/30 Tues. Newsletter Challenge: Cold Cash Crop: ICE


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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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What a fascinating page and incredible photo. Until the day she died, my grandma called the refrigerator the "ice box." Great job with all the white.

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So very interesting and is a perfect LO! The journaling makes the photos tell the story, my grandma in the 50's had an ice box in hot NM. This is amazing seeing the ice blocks sitting on the shore- I bet the people really appreciated getting their ice! Beautiful LO!

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This is so interesting and your information and photos are amazing.   I really like how you put this together, it's an awesome page.

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So interesting. In the town next to ours they harvested ice too. They had huge buildings where they stored the ice blocks packed with sawdust for insulation. They worked so hard then just to survive. This is an awesome page of history.

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Interesting photos and journaling. I love your Black and White layout. 

I remember when I was very young, my Mother bought ice from a truck that came around. Man, I'm old!

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I remember my Dad talking about how they got their ice (in NYC) from upstate New York but this is the first time I learned about the process. Thanks for the info! I love your photo and journaling and the whole page.

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