Reply To: Life in Hallowell in 1789
I remember those days, too, Libby. And there were two other generations of females living within my household; my mother, born in the 1920’s, and my grandmother, born around the time of the Civil War. Even as a child, I was amazed to hear what life was like for them, so many things that I took for granted that they had to live without, or weren’t allowed/expected to do, and what they thought about it. I wish they were still around, so that I could talk to them as a full adult. In some things, progress was lightning-fast, but in others, little seemed to have changed, deep down. Their experiences used to seem so very long in the past, but as I grew up I realized how few years really separated some of our experiences, and how so many things still hadn’t changed, particularly as far as how men and society viewed us.
