>    Its like the old saying that for many people "history starts on the day
 > they were born".
 >    Anything much before then they aren't interested in.
 >    I've always been interested in history.  Not just reading about it but
 > talking to people who were around at the time, as much as possible.
 >    When my mother was in a home the last years of her life (she loved it
 > there) I enjoyed talking to the other residents what it was like in "the
 > olden days".
 >    One had been a housekeeper for a rich, well known local family in from
 > around 1910 to 1930 and what life was like there.  What she did, how she did
 > it, etc.

I hated history as a student, because I was ripped off & never given a teacher
who loved it.  I've more recently picked up a love for it & of it. . . 

I'm not even narrowing my focus down -- just whatever humans were doing at any
place or time in the big Ago.

I began with some humorous books on history -- telling the facts, but with an
eye towards seeing the funny &/or deliberately misinterpreting so as to
generate humour.  Rthen once I found a few events & eras that lined up among
different authors' tellings, I started asking questions & using Google & my
library to find out more. . .

I'm not a Historian, per se -- more an Anthroplogist (read a book by the
world's top Space Archaeologist--got me hooked -- I can join her teams & help
look for evidences from Google satellite imges)

I like sociology, psychology, & anthropoplogy, as I want to understand these
weird beasts called humans from every angle!

As an aside, I'm picking up on geography knowledge, too -- also denied to me by
ineffective+disinterested teachers as these events & people all lived somewhere
& geography often shapes history, plus I play a lot of trivia games & I'll pick
Geography over History, usually. (I plaY more to learn than to win)



 > > From age 15 or so, my best friends were seniors. . .

 >   Most of the people I knew were much older than I was.
 >   I learned a lot from their stories.  Not history of kings and kingdoms
 > but of everyday life of the common person.

 > > I'm amazed at the self sufficiency of the generation that saw any part of
 > > the Depression!
 >   
 >    The average person in their teens or 20s couldn't handle that era.
 >    Neither side of my family had any money and the Depression was more of a
 > speed bump on the road of life rather than a crater.  :)
 >    Bette Midler had a great song, written by John Prine, Hello in There
 > about old people.
 >    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq51a-wyPnw&ab_channel=Musicete
 >    Joe
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