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Many of us can remember living “off the grid” when we were young but it wasn’t by choice.
Our house was not insulated and was heated by a stove in the kitchen and peat fires throughout the rest of the house.
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On winter mornings the inside of the bedroom windows would be frosted over. We would get water from the well, light from tilly lamps because we had no electricity, and had our weekly bath in a big tub in the kitchen.
We had a radio run on batteries. And yes, we had to use an outhouse and dumped the bucket on the midden to fertilise the land. We didn’t have a phone.
Newton man traces ancestry to Mayflower passenger
Jeff Guy
The Newton Kansan
Brad Hopkins will tell you he’s no geneaologist, but through years of perseverance and a little luck, he managed to trace his ancestry back 400 years to a cornerstone event in American history.
For years, the Newton man knew there was a chance he could be related to a passenger on the Mayflower. He just lacked the evidence, that final piece of the puzzle that would confirm his suspicions.
A week before Thanksgiving, the holiday connected with the Mayflower ship’s voyage from England to Plymouth Rock in what would become Massachussetts, Hopkins researched online one more time, trying to make the connection.