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The Challenges of Ice Harvesting

"Ken Ethier will describe the precise, and often dangerous, process of procuring ice in the 19th and early 20th centuries ... Learn about this major enterprise, with its ice men and ice houses, that benefitted households and businesses worldwide. Ethier will display antique ice harvesting tools and describe the cultivation of the ice field, harvest scoring and cutting, and transport. All Society programs are free and open to the public."

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