Technology, how it has changed. My grandmother was born in 1912, during the Mexican Revolution. At the time, her father, my great grandfather, Federico Stallforth, was being held for ransom by Pancho Villa. The Stallforth brothers owned gold and silver mines in Chihuahua. My great grandmother was sent out of the country and my grandmother was born in El Paso, TX. The ransom was paid and my great grandfather lived on to leave this memento …

(Yes, he’s lighting a cigarette.)

My grandmother lived into her eighties. I used to wonder at the changes that she saw in her life, public air travel, transatlantic phone lines, computers, the internet… What changes will my children see in their lifetime?

And now this bit of my great grandfather comes alive on youtube. Thank you, Mary.

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