This is a picture of Bill Nober on Tannery Pond in Cochecton Center. It shows an ice elevator, or portable conveyor, built by Nober. After cutting the ice in the lake, chunks were put on the homemade contraption and loaded on the truck. The ice was used to fill ice houses at Camps Swago, Swatona, Chiccopee, Wayne County Club, Camp Harley, Camp Mitchell, Milanville Creamery and Cochecton Creamery. During the storm of 1942, the dam at Tannery Pond gave way, draining the lake and entering Tannery Pond into the pages of history.

The Tusten Historical Society’s hours at the Western Sullivan Public Library, Tusten-Cochecton branch in Narrowsburg, are Mondays from 1 to 3 p.m., Fridays from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.