I can remember thinking what great changes my grandparents lived through. They lived through a post civil war south, horse and buggy transportation, kerosene or lamp oil lighting, a great depression, two world wars, a post war boom, electric lighting and refrigerators in every home, the assassination of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King, men on the moon, horses as a luxury and two job families.
When our children and grandchildren reflect on us, I wonder what they’ll think?
Yes, my family had a lot of “oral history” from some of the periods you mentioned.
Things that were talked about within the family, but no where else.
I heard many of them generations after the fact.
We’ve been in this county since 1889. Before that in Coryell Co. in 3 wagons with teams of mules. Some of ancestors were born in the Republic of Texas, others came after the CW.
They no longer teach meaningful history in public schools, for a reason. It is called brain washing of past.
I was the first in my immediate family to leave this county, was gone 25 years. Back since 1995, will finish it here, not going anywhere again.