In Page 1 of 3 1025 *note -If you are interested in Natural Ice Harvesting, be sure to visit Ice Harvesting U.S.A. A DAY ON AN ICE-FIELD by Alvaro Adsitt from DEMOREST'S FAMILY MAGAZINE July, 1894 JULY 1954. DEMOREST'S First hand accounts of the harvesting of ice are very difficult, if not impossible, to obtain today. Most of those FAMILY MAGAZINE hearty souls who took part in this activity are no longer alive, and those that are must attempt to reconstruct often imperfect childhood memories. Besides, ice harvesting in the 1930's and 1940's was somewhat more mechanized than it was in the 19th century. That's why I find this "primary source" article invaluable. I have attempted to transcribe "word for word" the entire article and have included every picture from the original. Settle back in a comfortable chair, then, and take a trip to a "simpler and easier" time. I can't help but wonder how Mr. Adsit would feel if he could sit here today and re-read his words from 106 years ago on this new-fangled gadget called a computer. Stephen Round 2nd grade teacher Charles Fortes Magnet Academy Providence, Rhode Island _The rose vine which climbed the balcony thrusts a spray of creamy blossoms in at my window as if to remind me that it is midsummer. As I lean to smell of them, as one might lean to receive a kiss, there is a rumble and a clatter in the street below, and a yellow-covered vehicle thunders by, upon whose side I read the word "ICE" and straightway my thoughts revert to another and a far different scene and season. _I see before me a wide expanse of gleaming ice upon which the sun glimmers with a thousand - sparkles. Yonder, swaying to and fro as in some mystic dance, go a pair of skaters. If that athletic young man with the bold, black eyes has not yet won the petite fair-haired girl at his side who clings SO closely