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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 256: Frederick Lewis Tudor ...
Description:      Frederick Lewis Tudor was the man who established the international ice trade, cutting ice on the lakes of New England and shipping it virtually all over the world. This remarkable enterprise captured the imaginations of so disparate a trio as Henry David Thoreau, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, and the Marx Brothers.     In the winter of 1846–1847, when the ice trade was in full swing, Thoreau watched a crew of immigrant Irish ice cutters at work on Walden Pond and recorded in his journal these remarks about the extent and influence of the ice trade:The sweltering inhabitants of Charleston...