The Ice Harvest

2024-01-17

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Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound design: crackling fireplace 🔥Includes mentions of: Food, Children, Nostalgia, Winter, Fire, History, Gratitude, Ice & Snow, US History, Americana, Work, Parents, Family. Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll pay a fascinating visit to 19th-century New England, USA. It’s the sparkling first evening of the winter ice harvest - a time before electric refrigeration - when ordinary farmers and labourers in the area gathered together to pull massive blocks of frozen water out of rivers and lakes. 😴 Watch, listen, and commen...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧

Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️

Sound design: crackling fireplace 🔥

Includes mentions of: Food, Children, Nostalgia, Winter, Fire, History, Gratitude, Ice & Snow, US History, Americana, Work, Parents, Family.

Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll pay a fascinating visit to 19th-century New England, USA. It’s the sparkling first evening of the winter ice harvest - a time before electric refrigeration - when ordinary farmers and labourers in the area gathered together to pull massive blocks of frozen water out of rivers and lakes. 😴

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