Stan, There was an ice truck that came around. It was from Lyons Ice Company in Madison. I can't remember how and if we got ice when there was no truck. I can remember a few times of having ice cream and then a real treat snow cream. I don't know what my aunt put in it but I can remember her going out when there was fresh snow and it was so good. We lived on Six Mile, about a half mile from the road that goes from Madison to Chapmanville. I can remember when it was paved. I was going to school on Turtle Creek. We walked over the mountain. I think that road is called corridor G now. Sometimes I would get to see my grandfather Baisden. He was working for the WPA when they built the road. The CCC's did a lot of construction in different parts of the USA too. At our house here in Weatherford there was a little retaining wall built by the CCC's. Clara Weatherford, TX Clara Having grown up in a remote country environment, I don't relate to ice deliveries at ones house although my grandmother owned one of the old time ice boxes. My memory takes a slightly different slant. My great grandfather, Charlie Ferg Stewart, had on his place at the mouth of Coon Branch the remains of an old ice house that had served him and his father before him as a storage place for ice during the summer. I was told that during the winter when the river was frozen, the men would gather ice from the Laural Fork, saw it into blocks with a crosscut saw and store it in the ice house for very selective use the following summer. The ice was covered with several inches of sawdust as insulation and would be available most of the summer. One thing that intrigues me is that they were able to find ice that was thick enough to make it all worthwhile. As a boy I could sometimes skate on the river, but due to pollutants, the rivers in that part of the country rarely freeze solid anymore. If Al Gore had known, he could have devoted an entire chapter of his book to southern WV rivers . STAN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message