[TheForge] Shop Communications

[Peter Hirst]

"To be able to call for 
help over great distances and beat the darkness "


Sounds like an Alaskan prayer.


Thanks, Frosty





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Shop Communications


> 
> From: "Larry Brown" <lp.brown at verizon.net>
>>
>> Lived in WV years ago and had a line into one house 
>> on the farm. Sometimes we would have a few neighbors 
>> waiting to make a call on the porch in the morning.
>> LB
>>
> 
> 
> I remember the party line though I don't recall what 
> our ring was. We had one at first, then somehow the 
> phone just figured out who's phone to ring. We never 
> listened in on the neighbors and I don't think they 
> listened in on us but I was really young.
> 
> My grandmother used to say they were lucky as their 
> farm was only a half hour ride from the farm with a 
> phone. That was after the phone came to the Ohios 
> though, before that it was a half day ride into town to 
> fetch the doctor if he was there.
> 
> In 69' the whole family was sitting in the living room 
> glued to the TV as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. 
> I was so excited I blurted out, "Isn't this the 
> greatest thing you've ever seen?!?!" About 10 minutes 
> later Mom, (that's what we called my maternal 
> grandmother who lived with us. Mom or Suzy I have NO 
> idea where Suzy came from, her name was Alice.) Anyway 
> after about 10 minutes or so she pipes up with, "No. 
> No, it isn't."
> 
> I turned to her in complete bafflement, I'd forgotten 
> I'd said anything and I say, "what?"
> 
> She replies, "No, this isn't the greatest thing I've 
> ever seen. It was either the first telephone or the 
> first electric light. Before the phone, if anybody got 
> hurt or sick you had to hitch up the buggy drive into 
> town and hope the doctor was in town. If not you had to 
> go looking and hope you could find him before it was 
> too late. But, before the electric light he had to wait 
> till day before he could operate and hope for a sunny 
> day. No, the greatest thing I've ever seen was either 
> the first phone or the first electric light." Of course 
> you had to go to the closest home with a phone and get 
> the injured person to the closest house with 
> electricity but it was still a huge imropvement.
> 
> I sat through her answer to my question in total 
> disbelief. What in the world could she be thinking? How 
> could a phone or light be better than a man walking on 
> the moon?
> 
> Of course once I thought about what she'd said I 
> realized she was exactly right. To be able to call for 
> help over great distances and beat the darkness is a 
> great thing indeed.
> 
> Frosty
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> it ain't real.
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> 
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
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