Ice Harvest
02/15/10 15:17
So it was ice harvesting day at the local farm education place, and I volunteered. They had a little museum display in the interpretive center, and we cut, hauled, and weighed ice with the old tools on the pond.
Before cheap refrigeration became available in the late 1940s, people did this as a part-time "moonlight" job, after their regular daily work was done. At night, in the winter, on the local ponds and lakes. Dang!
Maybe I'll look for more opportunities to do old-time farm work. It would be like a nineteenth-century version of Dirty Jobs.
