TOWN OF ALEXANDRIA

ICING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER

Each of the island estates had its own ice house, as well as its own power plant. This is Birch Island, summer home of E. Remington Nichols, near the mouth of Goose Bay. Evard Wagoner stands on his truck, Lulu Belle, wielding an ice hook to get another cake of ice in place. Bill Westcott, of nearby Number 9 Island, is wrangling a cake into the icehouse where some one else would be packing the ice. Lulu Belle was a Model T Ford truck, stripped down by use, as superfluous parts wore out or fell off. She does not yet have the eyes painted on the dashboard, which helped her avoid holes in the ice. After the Wagoner boys painted on her eyes, she rarely went through the ice, though she seemed to do so every year, before her sight was improved.

She has but one headlight, and that an empty socket, which did not matter, as she wasn't licensed to run on the road. Her license plate here is a relic of her more active past. Also notice the crank. There was no self starter here, and cranking her was sometimes an adventure in itself.

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