A greeting card found in the scrapbook of Anders H. Anderson, founder of Elverhoj Art Colony (1912-1930) in Milton, NY. Card is one of two in the scrapbook made by cutting construction paper and painting. Unknown artist. Original size is approx. 5"x 3.5"
ICE
Winter 2024
May Miller turned sixteen more than one hundred years ago. Her diary of 1904 was included in a box of small black diaries of her brother, John. The siblings lived in a farming family in Bullville, (Orange County) NY […]
January 2, 1904, was a Saturday and May related, “It snowed all day to-day George went to help Frank Gardner with the ice. I am making a collar.” Later, “George got home quite late and said they were not done with the ice.”
Well, in fact, neither are we. Nor will we ever be “done with the ice.”
Ice formed and continues to reform our landscape, our livelihoods, our work, our folklore, and our leisure. It has done so since we ventured out of Africa into the colder climes. Some of those climes and times were much colder than others.
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