I've been toying with the idea of a blog for some time. Today is as good a day as any, right?
This blog will be for people of a "certain age" who will see the post and say "Oh yes, I remember it well!"
The Christie Home Museum and Todd County Museum are treasure troves of our past. It never ceases to amaze me that I always see something new each time I'm in either of them. (Something old that's new to me.)
The Christie Home is a snapshot in time - name your time - from 1884 - 1976. Because of the Christie family's meticulous records, each year we're able to feature a display of what happened 100 years ago. This year our featured displays for 1918 are WWI and the Spanish Flu.
What prompted me to finally begin this blog is that I ran across another treasure today - some of the children's schoolwork. Little Edith passed away in 1902 at the age of 8, so this was done before that. She was obviously a smart little girl as she got 100 on every test!
I remember typing class, on manual typewriters. My, what strong fingers you had to have. (Actually, we had both manual and electric typewriters in our class. I'm not that old!)
These finds brought up my big concern that the current generation will be forgotten. School kids today don't use paper books, nor do they write on paper or learn "cursive." Everything is done on "tablets" with all information stored "in the cloud." 100, 200, or 10,000 years from now, what will be left? Paper books have proven the test of time, barring floods or fires, we have scrolls and books that are many centuries old.
Teach your grandkids to write! And print out some of those digital photos and keep them in an old fashioned photo album (but be sure to caption them for future generations!). Let's not lose our history!
We've gleaned a ton of information from the Christie's checkbook registers. Take a look at yours - what will someone 100 years from now learn about you?
Lorna
This blog will be for people of a "certain age" who will see the post and say "Oh yes, I remember it well!"
The Christie Home Museum and Todd County Museum are treasure troves of our past. It never ceases to amaze me that I always see something new each time I'm in either of them. (Something old that's new to me.)
The Christie Home is a snapshot in time - name your time - from 1884 - 1976. Because of the Christie family's meticulous records, each year we're able to feature a display of what happened 100 years ago. This year our featured displays for 1918 are WWI and the Spanish Flu.
What prompted me to finally begin this blog is that I ran across another treasure today - some of the children's schoolwork. Little Edith passed away in 1902 at the age of 8, so this was done before that. She was obviously a smart little girl as she got 100 on every test!
I remember typing class, on manual typewriters. My, what strong fingers you had to have. (Actually, we had both manual and electric typewriters in our class. I'm not that old!)
These finds brought up my big concern that the current generation will be forgotten. School kids today don't use paper books, nor do they write on paper or learn "cursive." Everything is done on "tablets" with all information stored "in the cloud." 100, 200, or 10,000 years from now, what will be left? Paper books have proven the test of time, barring floods or fires, we have scrolls and books that are many centuries old.
Teach your grandkids to write! And print out some of those digital photos and keep them in an old fashioned photo album (but be sure to caption them for future generations!). Let's not lose our history!
We've gleaned a ton of information from the Christie's checkbook registers. Take a look at yours - what will someone 100 years from now learn about you?
Lorna
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