On When Electricity Came to Rural Hillsdale: And then there was television
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"Mom lived here when electricity came," Rootie said, as we all stood in front of the Hillsdale farmhouse our grandparents lived in until they sold it in 1943. After electricity, there was television. When grandpa was living with her family back in Wakeman after the family got their first TV, he would talk during the shows, she remembered.
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"Mom lived here when electricity came," Rootie said, as we all stood in front of the Hillsdale farmhouse our grandparents lived in until they sold it in 1943. After electricity, there was television. When grandpa was living with her family back in Wakeman after the family got their first TV, he would talk during the shows, she remembered.
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Remember when television was new? Bonita and I were reminded of the early days of television by some displays that were up in the San Francisco airport when we were through two weeks ago. -gw
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Man has succeeded in using electricity in several ways—for light, for motive power, for sending messages from one end of the earth to the other—and by electricity he can even hear a voice many miles away!
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