USA Today Bestselling Author Shanna Hatfield introduces her new release Garden of Her Heart. Set in Oregon in 1942, this sweet romance between a wounded soldier and a fugitive discover love midst the greatest of challenges, in the least likely of places. This Blog Tour article shares where the idea for the book originated, a peek inside the new release, and more info about Shanna and her sweet romances.
Victorian Americans needed ice–for home use, through delivery businesses, on a commercial scale (to keep food from spoiling at the grocery and in railroad transportation). Ice houses were built all over the United States from the independent family’s ice house on their property to the enormous commercial Swift & Co. Ice House storing 60,000 tons annually. Ice harvesting occurred in January and February and kept in storage facilities until the following winter by applying ingenuity, science, and hard work. Men used saws, horse-drawn sleighs, and the strength of their own backs to harvest the cash crop each winter. This article contains vintage photographs, newspaper ads, and science info of the Victorian era.