Old people stories are the best!

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4. I hope the teacher passed her stories along to her family

as well.
You're right, these stories are treasure troves.
I'm bginning to have a few myself, that I impart to family when we're on long road trips.
I tell them about their grandparents and further back - that which I know and will be lost if I'd recollect to them.

My own begin mostly in the 40's, hearing my Dad come home on a sunday afternoon and telling my Mom and me -"The Japs have just bombed Pearl Harbor."

About school days when we learned to write with ink in an inkwell in the upper right hand corner of our desk.
We were given new nibs for our stick-type pens and dipped it into the inkwell and practiced writing our letters and words.
When finished we wiped the nib clean with a small piece of cloth.

And seeing television for the first time in the local hardware store, where a few folding chairs had been set up in front of the television.
You had to come at a certain time, because there were broadcasts for only a few hours a day at first.
Dumont was one of the early networks. Etc, etc.