Ice Harvesting Festival

Behind the Remick Museum in Tamworth, NH.

I went to Tamworth this morning to the Remick Museum where an Ice Harvesting Festival was being held. There were lots of animals there including a pair of oxen that pulled an old fashioned snow-roller, chinook dogs that were giving rides to the children, and lots of cattle that were hauling blocks of ice that were being harvested from a nearby pond. Ice used to be the first harvest of the year, followed by maple syrup beginning next month (which is one of my favourite things).

A look inside the museum.

A pair of ice tongs on a sleigh. These would be used to grasp ice blocks.

They kept looking at me funny (and then I remembered a certain Biology lab...)

These are various saws used to extract ice from the surface of frozen water.

Hard work, I suppose.

To preserve the ice, it was placed in a pile of sawdust and stored for later use.

I'll take a number 1198 with large fries. This one was flirty and cute!

This team was ready to go!