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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Insulation, homemade
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:38:20 -0700 (PDT)




--- On Mon, 10/27/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:


>
> Curiosity item: they used to cut ice from the Androscoggin
> and
> Penobscot Rivers here, pack it in sawdust, and send it by
> ship to the
> Caribbean in years gone by....big trade item for many
> years.
>
> SJ

Don't remember his name but an entrepreneur got the bright idea of shipping
ice to the Caribbean. He first had to develop a market for ice in that area,
creating a need so that he could then supply that need. Not exactly a case
of necessity being the mother of invention, sort of the opposite.
Van Dell




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