Although it was commonplace at one time, the last couple of generations don't have a clue. |
But they also provided ice for people who still had ice boxes. |
Ice harvesting was a huge thing in Waseca until the 1940s. The Johnson family harvested ice for 50 years until the late 1940s. |
The focus of the event is education and fun. |
The students will be able to come back in July and see the ice they harvested today put to use. |
We are real lucky to have a huge number of resources in this area to pull this event off. |
We're going back to the way things were done 100 years ago. |