Odd. My granmother, born in 1888 in a small town in illinois, grew up in a world of horses and carriages. She also saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
Mackinac Island in Michigan is horses only and it is really beautiful. I recommend it highly.
Mackinac Island is on my bucket list. Slice of Victorian/Edwardian life.
Back in the '50s I worked in a print shop in New London, CT, where this "little old lady in tennis sneakers" worked a Heidelberg press.
I was always interested in people who lived in an age where technilogical changes came back-to-back. When she mentioned that her mother, as a kid, saw President Grover Cleveland, I asked her to check with her mom about what made the biggest impression on her. (I'm thinking airplanes, radio, telephone, TV, etc.)
The next day she said, "You're not gonna believe this." All agog, I waited. "Mom said it was people watering their lawn. She had grown up in a 'sodbuster' family in Nebraska and remembered how they 'prayed for rain for the crops, and now you just turn a handle and get all you want.' "
It put things into perspective for me.