Remembering Holdenville Ice-Boat

Eighty-three years ago this month, the temperatures were much lower than they are now. In fact, lake Holdenville was iced over and some local residents were getting a lot of attention with the ice-boat they had built. The following story was from January 1940.

Scooting along at speeds sometimes approaching 50 miles an hour, an ice-boat constructed by three city residents is getting a lot of attenti…