Several years ago when I was Artist in Residence at the elementary school in Williston VT the students and I wrote a song that featured info given to us by elders of the town, members of the historical society. They remembered the first freezing plant in the US, a plant that processed geese from Canada as well as local fowl, right by the RR station for shipping to Boston. Super cooled by ice cut from a cove in the Winooski River

ROZIE BROWN'S STORE Multi aged group,Williston Central School, Our information came from the Historical Society elders

ROZIE BROWN'S STORE

(Chorus:) First came the railroad
Then came the depot
Then came the general store
Gathering place for the people

Rozie Brown's store had everything and more
That anybody could need
Fishing pole, hook line and sinker
Pins and needles and thread
Horse collars, straw hats and clothes
Barrels of pickles and fish
Cookies and crackers, pump your own molasses
You can get anything you wish (Chorus):

The farmer's big hands would roll the milk cans
Onto the train to Boston
Then drive their teams back to the store
For gabbin' and for talkin'
Telephone exchange didn't cost any change
You could help plug in the wire
Sort the mail, put it in a big bag
Hook it to the fast train "Flyer" (Chorus):

First freezing plant in all the land
Down by the railroad track
When the cove was frozen men would go out knowin'
Time to cut the Chapman Cove ice
From here you could see all the geese who would flee
'Til all the hill looked white
A boy drove geese to the freezing plant
A boy in command all right (Chorus):

We saw the bridge go down by ice coming up
In nineteen twenty three
It floated on down the Winooski River
Pushed by a big elem tree
To slide down Depot Hill was a great big thrill
All the way to the railroad track
After a chill or a winter spill
We'd go to Rozie Brown's before headin' back (Chorus):

(Repeat first verse)