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Podcast: Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Episode: The Ice Harvest
Description: Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound design: crackling fireplace 🔥Includes mentions of: Food, Children, Nostalgia, Winter, Fire, History, Gratitude, Ice & Snow, US History, Americana, Work, Parents, Family. Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll pay a fascinating visit to 19th-century New England, USA. It’s the sparkling first evening of the winter ice harvest - a time before electric refrigeration - when ordinary farmers and labourers in the area gathered together to pull massive blocks of frozen water out of rivers and lakes. 😴
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