The Ice Harvest on February 8, 2009 was a great success!

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Hand-cut blocks build icy harvest
Millers Mills hosts Old-Fashioned Ice Harvest

Volunteers move freshly cut blocks of ice into the ice house during the Millers Mills Grange's Old-fashioned Ice Harvest Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, in the Town of Columbia.


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MILLERS MILLS —
Watching volunteers collect ice from Little Unadilla Lake Sunday brought back memories of stories from Michael Kerrigan’s childhood.
“It’s fascinating,” Kerrigan said. “My father did this many years ago, back before World War II.”

Back then, he said, ice was collected off the southern reservoir in Utica. His father sold the ice along James Street, and people used it to cool their refrigerators, or “ice boxes,” as they were called at the time. Keep reading...