Comment by nephihaha
8 hours ago
It says she died at 105 and spent almost a century fishing for lobsters. I doubt she was catching many at the age of five.
8 hours ago
It says she died at 105 and spent almost a century fishing for lobsters. I doubt she was catching many at the age of five.
* Fishing's not catching,
* I just pulled up a family video of several kids, mine, my siblings, friends, making commercial marbles for sale pulling glass from a furnace and rolling them on a bench, using optic moulds, canes for decoration, etc .. at the age of five.
Sure, we weren't running them like chimney sweeps or coal mine donkeys 24/7 - that's what they wanted to do for pocket money - make their own, how ever many, and sell them.
> Fishing's not catching
Sounds like something from an MLM seminar. "Telling's not selling!"
I doubt she was doing much in this direction until at least the age of eleven and even then...
I can't say either way, having never met her.
I can say that Sandy over the road (now deceased, made it to 94) was hitching bullocks to sled a water tank to a spring and back every morning setting out at 4am from the age of five or so - both his parents died of influenza just a few years later.
My own father, (still alive, born 1935) was shooting and trapping rabbits at that age to feed the family.
In the days before OSHA there was a lot of stuff on a lobster boat an 8yo can be tasked with.
Depressing to realise that soon most people will not even have second hand experience with children being useful.
From 8 to 105...97 years. I'd say that qualifies as "almost a century".
She started working at the age of 8. Which we both know from reading the article.
I doubt she could do much at eight either. Maybe tie some knots.
Presumably that's why they said "almost a century" and not just "a century".