ssjones,
I was very glad to be of help with those photos. Like pipe restoration, it's very relaxing work =)
Mike
I was very glad to be of help with those photos. Like pipe restoration, it's very relaxing work =)
Mike
Great-Grandfathers Pipe Picture - Found!
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I hope photos from today can be retrieved from hard drives, servers, and the cloud, as platforms and hardware change, so that people can continue to retrieve these images from our past. Letters, emails, and blogs of significance as well. Right now, for durability over time, paper is still the champ. Newspapers and magazines if given half a chance outlive their microfiche facsimiles by far.
Civil War letters written by officers with fine new fountain pens (high tech then) have often faded into history, whereas letters written by enlisted men in low tech pencil live on. Newspaper "morgues," files of clips and other documents, have almost universally been trashed.
Civil War letters written by officers with fine new fountain pens (high tech then) have often faded into history, whereas letters written by enlisted men in low tech pencil live on. Newspaper "morgues," files of clips and other documents, have almost universally been trashed.
mso, it's certainly something to think about and fodder for science fiction novels, from The Time Machine to A Canticle for Leibowitz . Who knows what will survive and what will disappear into the mists of time?
I also think about all the manuscripts and artwork tragically lost forever after the bombing of Dresden by the allies in WWII.
I also think about all the manuscripts and artwork tragically lost forever after the bombing of Dresden by the allies in WWII.
You just reminded me that I have "A Canticle for Leibowitz" buried in my Kindle, I'll have to move that to the front.
Al:
My maternal grandfather, who smoked cigars. & maternal great grandfather, who did not smoke, worked the coal mines around Nanticoke, PA (near Wilkes Barre) - grandpa ran the electric hoists, & great grandpa swung a pick & shoveled coal in the bowels of the mines. I don't have any pictures of grandpa smoking his stogies.
My non-smoking paternal grandfather ran the pumps for the coal mine in Glen Lyon, PA.
My maternal grandfather, who smoked cigars. & maternal great grandfather, who did not smoke, worked the coal mines around Nanticoke, PA (near Wilkes Barre) - grandpa ran the electric hoists, & great grandpa swung a pick & shoveled coal in the bowels of the mines. I don't have any pictures of grandpa smoking his stogies.
My non-smoking paternal grandfather ran the pumps for the coal mine in Glen Lyon, PA.
My wife's maternal great, great, great grandmother smoked both pipes & cigars.
She was once asked about smoking cigarettes, but replied, "No, they're for sissies!". (She was a tough Kansas women who came out to Kansas in a covered wagon & for awhile lived in a sod home).
We have a photo of her only smoking a cigar:
I think that she was around 96 or 97 years old when this was taken.
Had I seen this before marrying my wife, I may have had second thoughts.
She was once asked about smoking cigarettes, but replied, "No, they're for sissies!". (She was a tough Kansas women who came out to Kansas in a covered wagon & for awhile lived in a sod home).
We have a photo of her only smoking a cigar:
I think that she was around 96 or 97 years old when this was taken.
Had I seen this before marrying my wife, I may have had second thoughts.
@cossack: my fathers family was from Shavertown, just north of Wilkes-Barre (right below Harvey's Lake)
cossack', wonderful picture of your wife's great great grandma. I think you can be proud not reluctant about your wife's lineage. My wife's grandma Girtha went to Kansas from Tennessee as a pioneer in a wagon when she was an infant and had to relearn to walk. She moved back to Missouri and became a farm wife and farm manager, and was the family matriarch long after her husband died in 1945 until she died at age 99. Girtha was a diminutive woman and soft-spoken, but with a spine of steal. You observed the Sabbath and didn't swear in her presence. People in the family and community knew that no good would come of her disapproval. I am proud to sleep under a quilt hand stitched by her when in her nineties. Girtha did let her son-in-law do the smoking of cigars, outside the house.
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