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Exciting! I remember being captivated by an old man at a retirement home recollecting farm work with horses. I don’t remember what he said or how I came to be
by willvarfar 5y ago
Exciting! I remember being captivated by an old man at a retirement home recollecting farm work with horses. I don’t remember what he said or how I came to be listening, but it might have been a primary school project or something.
There is a project to collect old diaries https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X0hi2Q3TAK8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X0hi2Q3TAK8
Perhaps they take audio too? Or perhaps there is some similar archive for non-diary recollections and things?
And perhaps you’d like to share online?
- bsenftner 5y agoMy father, born in '35 in South Dakota, talked about as a child they plowed their farm with horses.
- dsego 5y agoI mean, depends where on earth you are, but my parents born in yugoslavia in the late 50s remember plowing with oxen, the first bw TV sets appeared in their village in the 60s, there was no in-house plumbing or electricity when they were very little, they were transporting water in buckets on donkeys etc.
- willvarfar 5y agoI do hope people are documenting this while there are still chances! Imagine finding a diary or account of some mundane life a few hundred years ago. This stuff is important to preserve for the future.
- dreamcompiler 5y agoI visited Turkey in the early 2000s. It was not uncommon to be driving on a major, modern highway, crest a hill, and have to slam on the brakes because a donkey was pulling a farmer's cart in the middle of the road at 5 mph. This was out in a rural area, but still. Major highway like an American interstate.