Mississippi Edition, Thursday, May 29, Mississippi Public Broadcasting

"Engaging, interesting tale...unique. It will create a lot of nostalgia in people's minds when they see this book."

WXVT TV

"It's important to remember how the industry changed our country....It's an industry that changed the way we lived."

Blackwater Regional Library

"Wonderfully entertaining documentary."

Richmond Magazine

"The lavishly illustrated coffee-table book is part travelogue, part industrial history and part memoir."

Internet Review of Books

"Factual, entertaining, and even moving homage to frozen water and the entrepreneurial spirit of the individuals who recognized its life-chaning promise."

Wordy Birds, WRIR

"Elli Morris is as unusual as the history she has carved. Her book is fantastic. It was really really fun to read."

PORTICO jackson

"Elli's book explains [the block ice] history while intertwining personal anecdotes, insightful facts and the beautiful artistic imagery as seen through her camera lens."

Curtis Wilkie, author of “Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South&rdquo

"Time passes, as quickly as ice melts. Yet the mystique of the icehouse continues to exist...for those who have Elli Morris' book to evoke a special time."

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"Elli Morris has patiently pulled together the facts in an easy-to-read style which makes this ...an ideal coffee-table book. So much evidence of the ice business from years-gone-by has been lost or disappeared altogether and Elli's documentation of the 100-year history of block production will provide an accurate record of how the industry has developed over the years."

URGE Magazine

"[T]he book...provides an intricate, carefully researched history of the ancient art of manufacturing block ice. Once you finish this, you're bound to have a little more appreciation for the deceptively complex process of creating block ice."

Marlo Kirkpatrick, author of “Mississippi Impressions”

“Cooling the South” introduces readers to an era that helped shape the American South, yet many remain unaware of. The story is fresh, the modern and historic photos are engaging and the combination of historical facts and personal recollections is fascinating. “Cooling the South” is, quite literally, a very cool piece of work."