We are all so spoiled with air conditioning, cell phones, dishwashers and vehicles, it is hard to imagine how our ancestors made it.
I am so thankful to have been born when I was. Today is the day to say it!
Indeed! I lived in TX for 10 years in the 1970s. Lokks of books a pamphles were published in celebration of t e Bi-Centenniel and I lapped up every one of them. After one true account of early TX history where the poor woman was abandoned by her ne’er do well husband to face childbirth in a cabin by herself with only her child by an earlier marriage to help her deliver her baby and panther’s prowling outside her door. I remember squinting my eyes and staring at the undeveloped land around our subdivision and wondering how the earliest Texans made it and why they even tried.
I was born in CA which was a far more hospitable land. It was quite an experience to move to TX. I always said that it would never have become a powerhouse without AC!
One of my great-grandfathers (14th) on my father’s side was Stephen Hopkins who sailed both to Jamestown and eventually to Plymouth. He was one of the strangers who was shipwrecked in the Barbados on the way to Jamestown and was sentenced to hang for mutiny when he got to Jamestown. He talked his way out, from what I can gather by pleading that it was not mutiny because they were shipwrecked on land and not at sea. He later made his way back to England and eventually took his family onto the Mayflower with the original intent to settle allotted ground near Jamestown. They had problems at sea and decided to land at Cape Cod and eventually founded Plymouth. He was one who pushed against the socialist setup and eventually opened a inn and tavern. He was frequently in trouble for selling liquor on the Sabbath.