There are probably several healthy members of this forum who remember chilling their beverages with ice "harvested" from Winter Harbor.
(Just a mile from where I currently reside).
"Harvesting"was done with a long hand saw, and were also likely sold as large blocks in Wolfeboro.
Of course, private dwellings now occupy nearly every inch of Winter Harbor that was formerly a White Pine forest.
We can't expect
pristine.