SOUTH BRISTOL, Maine
Thompson Ice House Museum
Route 129, 12 miles east of Damariscotta. Look for sign on left.
South Bristol, Maine
207-729-1956 (Barbara Hamlin)
207-644-8120 or 207-644-1882 (Ellen Shew)
Open July and August on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 1-4 p.m. Suggested contribution: adults $1, children 50 cents. Ice harvest takes place on Sunday, Feb. 15. There will be hot chocolate, coffee, hot dogs, and similar fare as a fund-raiser. Most volunteers arrive between 9 and 10. It's all over at about 2 p.m. Dress in layers.
On the Sunday of Presidents' Day weekend, hundreds of volunteers will meet beside a frozen pond at the Thompson Ice House, now a small museum. For the better part of the day they will cut 300-pound blocks of ice from Thompson Pond using the same methods and many of the same tools five generations of the Thompson family relied on for about 160 years.
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