My wife’s great-grandfather came from present-day Lithuania to NE Pennsylvania in the 1890s at the age of seven, started working as a breaker boy shortly after, didn’t speak any English, died in his early 30s after spending almost all of his life underground. A terrible, ugly, bleak existence
My great grandfather started working in the PA mines when he was 7. His father died and there was no question that he would quit school and start working.
He lived to be 90. I was 12 when he died. Every time we would go out to eat, my mom would read the menu to me to see what I wanted, and I’d get really annoyed because I thought she was treating me like a baby. After he died, my mom told me she always read the menu because he couldn’t read and was extremely embarrassed about it, so she’d pretend to read it to me or another kid at the table so he could listen without having to let his great grandkids know he couldn’t read.
PerBnb on August 29th, 2021 at 16:47 UTC »
My wife’s great-grandfather came from present-day Lithuania to NE Pennsylvania in the 1890s at the age of seven, started working as a breaker boy shortly after, didn’t speak any English, died in his early 30s after spending almost all of his life underground. A terrible, ugly, bleak existence
Smellmyhand on August 29th, 2021 at 19:59 UTC »
Never forget that the reason your kids aren't worked like this today is only because they made laws against it.
mdmaheifbeg on August 29th, 2021 at 20:38 UTC »
My great grandfather started working in the PA mines when he was 7. His father died and there was no question that he would quit school and start working.
He lived to be 90. I was 12 when he died. Every time we would go out to eat, my mom would read the menu to me to see what I wanted, and I’d get really annoyed because I thought she was treating me like a baby. After he died, my mom told me she always read the menu because he couldn’t read and was extremely embarrassed about it, so she’d pretend to read it to me or another kid at the table so he could listen without having to let his great grandkids know he couldn’t read.