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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- 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