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    >    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.   
      
   I hated history as a student, because I was ripped off & never given a teacher   
   who loved it.  I've more recently picked up a love for it & of it. . .    
      
   I'm not even narrowing my focus down -- just whatever humans were doing at any   
   place or time in the big Ago.   
      
   I began with some humorous books on history -- telling the facts, but with an   
   eye towards seeing the funny &/or deliberately misinterpreting so as to   
   generate humour.  Rthen once I found a few events & eras that lined up among   
   different authors' tellings, I started asking questions & using Google & my   
   library to find out more. . .   
      
   I'm not a Historian, per se -- more an Anthroplogist (read a book by the   
   world's top Space Archaeologist--got me hooked -- I can join her teams & help   
   look for evidences from Google satellite imges)   
      
   I like sociology, psychology, & anthropoplogy, as I want to understand these   
   weird beasts called humans from every angle!   
      
   As an aside, I'm picking up on geography knowledge, too -- also denied to me by   
   ineffective+disinterested teachers as these events & people all lived somewhere   
   & geography often shapes history, plus I play a lot of trivia games & I'll pick   
   Geography over History, usually. (I plaY more to learn than to win)   
      
      
      
    > > 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   
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