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RE: There are no longer humans born in the 19th century
@liberosist sad reminder of how time relentlessly pushes forward.
About four years ago, I worked with a business owner in his 70's whose lineage was part Native American. He told me about his grandfather who lived to just over 100 years old and was born in the mid to late 1800s. He told him first person accounts of the American Civil War, when Native American Indian tribes were still sovereign nations negotiating with America and so on. Such a rich history.
I can remember how sad I was when my own great uncle died. He told me stories of growing up in the depression and when his own grandfather first had electricity wired into his house.
Great piece, my friend.
That's amazing! Those stories must be remembered and written down. All I hear from my father is growing up in the UK during Beatlemania! :)
@liberosist my absolute favorite one was when my great-uncle and his sister, my great-aunt were telling me about the first time my grandfather (their brother-in-law) was taken into the Pennsylvania countryside to meet my grandmother's parents at the height of the Great Depression. I'm glad I had the opportunity to hear those stories firsthand before he passed. I learned so much about my own grandparents and what drove them.
I'm also happy I can share those stories with my own children so they can have that sense of heritage as well.
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