Bosley Wilder: Sculpted ice and dumplings

From The Block Island Times:

This ice ship sculpture gives a whole new meaning to the term “icebreaker.”

It is for good reason that Harbin is known locally as “Ice City.” As winter roars into full force here, dropping the mercury to a record -40 degrees, snow and ice combine to create a brilliance of color in this industrial city of north China ” Harbin, the capital of agriculturally rich Heilongjiang, the region known through World War II as Manchuria.