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Finn Arbor - 2005-02-23 22:45:29 Hey Finn, you'll get more attention if you start your own blog.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-24 00:58:47 As stated on the previous thread, a variety of opinions are welcome at Ypsidixit. However, abusive, insulting, or threatening posts do not merit a response. To the kind readers of Ypsidixit: please do not acknowledge or, in any way, respond to abusive, insulting, or threatening posts. Future posts of that nature will be deleted.* * * * * * * * * * * * Anna - 2005-02-24 08:59:24 Imagine how great it must have been when the river froze back in the days when getting around was difficult...* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-24 11:34:53 Now that you mention it I cant recall the Huron ever freezing over at all. In the skater story, it's clear the river's frozen...but I can't recall any time it's been frozen--downtown, that is. The flow is a bit slower just north of the former paper mill, and I've seen that part partially frozen over. What's also interesting, so long as I'm putting this micro-news item under an electron microscope, is the mention of ice harvesting. Ice harvesting was a big business back then. People would cut up frozen areas of the Huron or local ponds and store the ice-blocks in icehouses for months of home refrigeration use. You an see an ice-house at the Waterloo Area Farm Museum. It was a big industry in Washtenaw County.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |