Page 4 - Lake Front News January 2018

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Special Exhibit Highlights Lake
Erie Ice Harvesting Industry
Courtesy of Kristina Smith, Communications/Marketing Manager Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums
For modern Americans, grabbing hamburgers to grill for dinner or making an ice cream sundae on a hot day is as simple as opening the refrigerator or freezer.
This wasn’t always the case.
Cold beverages, frozen treats and refrigerated perishables were once the exclusive luxury of the affluent. Beginning in the early 19th century, the ice harvesting industry revolutionized the lives of common people by providing
them with cheap, abundant ice.
One of the biggest ice producers was Lake Erie and its Sandusky Bay.
The latest special exhibit at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, “‘Ice for Everybody:’ Lake Erie and America’s Ice Harvesting Industry” will explain the story of how the Sandusky area became the center of a century-long mammoth industry that changed the way Americans lived. The
exhibit will be open through February 25.
“The only connection most people have with this topic is the first three minutes of the Disney movie ‘Frozen,’ and that’s unfortunate,” said Kevin Moore, associate curator of artifacts. “We are all connected to this topic, and we don’t even know it.
“Why is beef a staple of the American diet today? Ice-refrigerated train cars allowed a massive meat packing industry to
One of the biggest ice producers was Lake Erie and its Sandusky Bay.
develop. There is much E. Frohman collection and The exhibit also will of our modern culture, artifacts, such as an icebox feature videos of locals who particularly as it relates to and tools used in the trade, remember the days when food and drink, that owes this exhibit will show the their food was refrigerated its existence to the ice impact Northwest Ohio in iceboxes with big blocks harvesting industry.” icemen and their work on of ice.
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