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Listening to America aims to “light out for the territories,” traveling less visited byways and taking time to see this immense, extraordinary country with fresh eyes while listening to the many voices of America’s past, present, and future. Led by noted historian and humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson, Listening to America travels the country’s less visited byways, from national parks and forests to historic sites to countless under-recognized rural and urban places. Through this exploration ...
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The Ice Man Cometh in Connecticut
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Nội dung được cung cấp bởi Mike Allen. Tất cả nội dung podcast bao gồm các tập, đồ họa và mô tả podcast đều được tải lên và cung cấp trực tiếp bởi Mike Allen hoặc đối tác nền tảng podcast của họ. Nếu bạn tin rằng ai đó đang sử dụng tác phẩm có bản quyền của bạn mà không được phép, bạn có thể làm theo quy trình được nêu tại đây https://vi.player.fm/legal.
Refrigeration, as a technology, is only about 100 years old. Before then, people kept food chilled in an insulated ice box. You needed to routinely place large chunks of ice in the ice box to make sure food didn’t spoil. For 150 years, the harvesting of ice from ponds and lakes in Connecticut was a big business. We’re going to learn how this was done from the Research Director of the White Memorial Conservation Center in Litchfield, CT, James Fischer, where one of CT’s larger ice operations was based.
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