This is crazy....

I've written before that when I was growing up my closest friend was my grandfather. Living in the country I had no friends my age anywhere near me.... so every day, morning til night, my best friend and playmate was my grandfather - who did not speak English. I did not know, at the time, I was speaking Italian with my grandfather. To me it was just how you spoke to your grandparents. I wish I had thought to ask him more about his life - because - My grandfather was 3 months old when this happened:



And he was 4 years old when this happened:



Surely my grandfather did not remember those two events - BUT - think of what he did live to see and remember ..... he was 26 years old when Orville and Wilbur Wright flew! 29 years old when radio started broadcasting.

My grandfather first came to America in 1903. Was processed at Ellis Island then took a train across the USA to San Francisco. That had to be one amazing trip!

Amazing stuff... and not just for me. There were people alive when Orville and Wilbur first flew when players in the NFL today were born.

History is not all that old. - JamesJM