Talk:Frederic Tudor

Wenham Lake Ice Company

Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life talks about Tudor establishing the protocols and technology for the Wenham Lake Ice Company but does not give a complete history of either him or the company. He cites Gavin Weightman's Frozen Water Trade for more information; I would suspect that book would be useful for expanding this article and the article on the ice company. Blue Rasberry (talk) 05:03, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure he actually participated in that company, which I think was a competitor? -- Beland (talk) 20:24, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

What about his six wives?

I heard he put some of them on ice. EEng (talk) 12:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Quote from the Boston Gazette

"No joke. A vessel has cleared at the Custom House for Martinique with a cargo of ice. We hope this will not prove a slippery speculation."

I've seen this quote on a few different sites, and I can't find a primary source for it. Can someone find a better citation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mghoffmann (talk • contribs) 02:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Claims worth tracking down

"nahantjim" posted this on a Boston Globe article in 2018. It seemed interesting and I'm noting it here so someone can track down these claims.

Tudor also invented the "Tudor fence" that stood about 16' high and offered protection from the salt and high winds which prevented regrowth of trees and made gardening impossible in Nahant. Not everyone loved them and Thoreau was one who did not, commenting, "“Mr. Tudor’s ugly fences, a rod high designed to protect a few pear shrubs.” It must have been galling to Thoreau that Tudor won a coveted Horticultural Society prize for the pears they produced.

There is a description of how the endlessly inventive Tudor "converted the naked promontory of Nahant into a luxuriant garden" in John Phin's book below:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Open_Air_Grape_Culture.html?id=jrawGQAACAAJ

-- Beland (talk) 23:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)