TID: PX/Win v3.0pr5 PX96-0466M2   
   MSGID: 1:135/392 191fc971   
   TZUTC: -0400   
     Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   > Also my peers were dumb as dirt, & I could actually learn from my elders!   
   (if over 40, 50+)   
      
      Its like the old saying that for many people "history starts on the day   
   they were born".   
      Anything much before then they aren't interested in.   
      I've always been interested in history.  Not just reading about it but   
   talking to people who were around at the time, as much as possible.   
      When my mother was in a home the last years of her life (she loved it   
   there) I enjoyed talking to the other residents what it was like in "the olden   
   days".   
      One had been a housekeeper for a rich, well known local family in from   
   around 1910 to 1930 and what life was like there.  What she did, how she did   
   it, etc.   
      
   > From age 15 or so, my best friends were seniors. . .   
      
     Most of the people I knew were much older than I was.   
     I learned a lot from their stories.  Not history of kings and kingdoms   
   but of everyday life of the common person.   
      
   > I'm amazed at the self sufficiency of the generation that saw any part of   
   the Depression!   
        
      The average person in their teens or 20s couldn't handle that era.   
      Neither side of my family had any money and the Depression was more of a   
   speed bump on the road of life rather than a crater.  :)   
      Bette Midler had a great song, written by John Prine, Hello in There   
   about old people.   
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq51a-wyPnw&ab_channel=Musicete   
      Joe   
   --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
    * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 www.doccyber.org bbs.docsplace.org (1:135/392)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/0 18/0 90/1 105/81 116/116 120/340 457 616 123/0   
   SEEN-BY: 123/10 25 40 115 126 131 150 160 180 190 200 257 755 124/5016   
   SEEN-BY: 129/305 135/300 366 371 379 382 383 384 385 388 390 391 392   
   SEEN-BY: 153/757 7715 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 220/80 90 221/0 6   
   SEEN-BY: 226/18 30 227/114 201 702 229/424 426 428 452 664 700 981   
   SEEN-BY: 240/1120 2100 5138 5234 5411 5824 5832 5853 249/206 307 317   
   SEEN-BY: 249/400 261/38 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 299/6 300/4   
   SEEN-BY: 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120   
   SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 2320/105 2452/250 2454/119 3634/0 12   
   SEEN-BY: 3634/15 24 27 50   
   PATH: 135/392 300 3634/12 154/10 280/464 240/5832 229/426