I don't recall what it was like in 1907, but that's probably because I was born in 1944.

What I do remember is deliveries of ice for the ice-box, the precursor of the refrigerator, and home deliveries of milk and of coal for the furnace. I remember when you had a 16-party line and could dial (dial...) anyone in town using just four numbers. Paperback books were a quarter. Gasoline was 17¢ a gallon. Postage stamps were 2¢. I remember the first televisions hitting the stores. Doctors would visit you at home.

Whoops. I think more hairs just turned gray.

What I do remember is deliveries of ice for the ice-box, the precursor of the refrigerator, and home deliveries of milk and of coal for the furnace.

Do you remember the one-room school house, and the awful consequences to any child who got snotty with a teacher? You'd get TWO beatings!

Although there were only 18 of us in the graduating class, we had quite an impressive school. It was a Central School, for many of the far-flung communities in the Adirondack Park of upstate NYok.

Although our senior year started off with 20 students, and two of them didn't graduate, all 18 who did graduate competed for and received NY State Regents scholarships.