Posted on 12/27/2004 10:58:42 AM PST by Frapster
What wonderful, interesting people they must have been!! Please, tell us more!! And post the pics here, too.
I think we're seeing the very last of the people who built this country and made it great. Right now, I can't think of one truly rugged individualist (along the lines of your grandparents) under the age of 65...can you?
Thanks for reminiscing and may they RIP.
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bah - that should have read "VANITY - Vanishing Americana". Not that it makes much difference - I'm a terrible writer and I was simply trying to convey in the title how my grandparents represent so much that no longer exists in America. Anyway...
>>I'll stop now - I keep thinking of more to say. lol
Sounds like you have an interesting tale to tell. For the sake of your grandchildren, who will look upon you as you look upon your grandparents, write it down and tell the story.
Ben Franklin once said... (paraphrased) "If you would be remembered when you're dead and gone, write something worth the reading, or say something worth the writing." And I think that in the case of your grandparents, one could add... "or do something worth the telling."
Nice story!
Your post brought back memories. My last grandparent died in 1968. I now treasure the pictures of the family camping trips made all the more special because my Grandfather lost a leg in WWI. They were hearty people for sure!
I'm snowed in here and have really enjoyed reading about your grandparents.....Would like for you to write more when you can....(Then save it for your family)
Hi Hoosiermama! I'm in Noblesville, Indiana - want I should send a snow plow your way? :-)
I'm thinking of building a small website that talks about my grandparents on both my father and mother's side. They were all amazing yet humble people. I have family on both sides that have done some amazing work in capturing our family history and I have some photos on disk. It will take me a while but I'll try to remember to post a link when at some point along the way.
Thanks MarineBrat!
Thank you!
That would be great. My Fathers side of the family has been extensively researched. My Moms side of the family has not. I can find names of a few names, but know nothing more than one generation back. Do your research with your grandchildren in mind.
People always write best when it's current, and from the heart. The catharsis is amazing. and the fact that all of us in the "40's" can truly identify.
I remember my great grandmother. She was about 4'10" tall and raised 14 kids in a house not as big as today's average garage. A precious treasure of America, that has not been well documented, and is fast fading away.
When we forget, or fail to preserve the past, we're doomed to lose the wisdom that got us to where we are now.
Hale and hearty folks! Keep me on the list to be notified when you get that website up and running. Thanks for posting, kiddo.
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Oh please do.....Have been in since the 21st..."Six days and counting"..CLick on "hoosiermama" and you'll get an idea of what we're dealing with....Just imagine it with 2-3 FEET of snow on top...Need to stop freeping and go back to shoveling.....Haven't been able to get hold of any one with a tractor....Even the four wheel drive are having trouble......
SHovel then, another log on the fire and another cup of soup.....
I was born in 1956 in a logging/ranching community of Southern Utah. Our summertime ranch house had two rooms and a path (the path lead to the outhouse, for those of you born in more fortunate areas of the country). In only 48 years the industry, people, community in my small town have all changed, directly related to libs and here is how.....
...We were killing their national forests with our logging (not!), they stopped us. They stopped us from getting lazy, filty rich from ranging our cattle on their national range land (I've never seen a rich cattleman in my neck of the woods!) We lived near their National Parks and so they decided that we could provide ourselves a living by being their servants, waiters, bus-boys and guides whenever they chose to visit our homeland for their commune with nature. I've watched proud and hard-working old loggers and cattlemen become angry,self-debasing slaves to the idiot nature-worshipping commie/libs.
I'm sad to see a way of life in the west vanish. Some are still fighting - and thanks to conservatives and FReepers and such, we still have a fighting chance!
Wow! That's an amazing find. That truly is a great present.
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