--- 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