Ice Shanties Views
Welcome to Ed Dodge's home away from home on the ice, which he calls his shantaminium. With all its amenities, it qualifies as the Taj Mahal of ice shanties in Central New York. We had a house-warming party last Saturday, he said, noting that 13 guests feasted on hors d'oeuvres, steaks, elk meat and, of course, beer.
Dodge said he's been helping neighbors, including Haworth, put their shanties together for about seven years. This year for the first time, Dodge decided to build his own. He dragged it out on the ice with his ATV (it sits on skis and wheels) next to Haworth's shanty around Christmastime. It's been out on the ice ever since.
In northern climates, ice shanties are the center of a large, often humorous, folklore. Fishermen often decorate their ice shanties in humorous ways (toilets are a popular joke addition), while others studiously work on ways to make their ice shanties more comfortable and efficient. Much of the folklore involves the inherent danger of erecting a structure atop a frozen pond. A common saying goes that every lake has at least one bobhouse on the bottom (at least one snowmobile, too).[citation needed]
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