When I was a kid, pictures of old things were boring. Museums, etc...boring. Stories about old things...boring.
Who would have thought that when I got older (one could say I became an older thing) that these things would now fascinate me? I love hearing stories from my grandma about how things were different when she was younger. I love looking at old photographs, and things in museums.
I read Wil Wheaton's blog (Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The New Generation) and he just posted a link about the Library of Congress posting over 3,000 old photographs on Flicker. Check it out. (Side note, Wil's a really great story teller and has a couple of great books out. If you want to read them let me know.)
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/01/library-of-cong.html
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Old things
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That was great. Thanks for posting it! I love Will Wheaton's writing and read his blog every great once in a while.I've never read his books.
I think I loved the color picures from around the 30's and 40's the best myself. I know of course it wasn't a black and white world, but it's still hard to wrap my mind around the fact that things looked the same then as they do now. I don't know what I expect them to have looked like. Maybe is the same thing as the time when we went to Canada and it was a little disappointing that it wasn't obviously different looking.
If you don't mind, I'd like to link this in my LJ!
Sure, go right ahead!
I'll send you the book I have the most recent book of his The Happiest Days of Our Lives. I checked out Dancing Barefoot from the library, that was a good one too. He tells great stories about his childhood that people our age can totally relate to.
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