First, I would like to acknowledge that these pictures came from the following excellent, informative FaceBook page: Fhttps://www.facebook.com/CrownOfMaine/posts/10153896233706972
The following was written by my father, Lawrence L. Weeks Sr:
I have to admit that this is not a picture of Chapman Pond in Porter, Maine, but as I do not know that a picture exists of that, I will give you an idea of what’s happening as I remember it. This appears to be as close to the way that the operation looked when I watched it happen in 1935 or so. Cutting ice was done by the neighborhood farmers that needed a way to keep the milk that they sold cold as well as cooling the other food that they needed.
They “exchanged work” so called and worked together as a group. The ones that I can remember are Irving, Frank and Elwyn Weeks; Jesse Brooks; Curtis, Oliver and Fred Chapman.
Notice that the ice has been marked each way, making squares with the ice plow and used ice tongs to move the ice. They usually cut an open waterway path to float the cakes from where they were cut to the horse sleds used to haul the cakes to various ice houses.
Notice that the ice has been marked each way, making squares with the ice plow and used ice tongs to move the ice. They usually cut an open waterway path to float the cakes from where they were cut to the horse sleds used to haul the cakes to various ice houses.
Jesse Brooks! He was in our life before he was in our life!
ReplyDeleteElsie and Jesse Libby Brooks were neighbors and good friends of your great grandparents, Frank and Bertha Cartland Weeks.
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