when telephone long distance was shortwave radio. ( have a old radio with these frequencies on the dial)

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7. We are helpless creatures. My grandmother was born in 1898

She ran a farm and was a nurse. Her husband was a country doctor but was older so she did all the farming. They made a pact when they got married that they would not charge the poor (this was before Universal healthcare in Canada). They needed the farm because some farmers could only trade plowing a field or chickens for medical service and they had more than most. When she died I thought there goes all the knowledge of how to live off the land. We are useless compared to her.